An Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission board has agreed to continue with plans toward further precautionary management of the Chesapeake Bay’s industrial-scale menhaden fishery.

Capt. John McMurray hails as a renowned big tuna and striped bass charter captain based on Long Island, New York. The hard-charging captain has been the owner and primary...

Recreational angling, boating, and conservation community disappointed that state legislative efforts to fund menhaden science in the Chesapeake Bay failed in session.

During the 2025 legislative session, Virginia lawmakers will again consider providing funding for university research into the Commonwealth’s largest fishery: Atlantic menhaden.

As 2024 wraps up, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is excited to share this year’s key achievements in forage fish conservation along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, helping protect...

An all-purpose outdoors professional since 1994, Capt. Chris Dollar has three decades’ experience as an outdoors professional on the Chesapeake Bay who has held a fishing guide license and...

Paul Dixon is a saltwater fly fishing guide who offers fly fishing for striped bass and bluefish off Montauk, N.Y., and for bonefish, permit, and tarpon in the Florida...

Fully 1 million fewer dead pogies, or menhaden, were spilled in the 2024 season compared to the annual average after near-shore, half-mile-wide buffers were created by the state to...

Dr. Bryan Watts studies a wide range of avian issues, from waterbirds on barrier island beaches to the effects of human-caused stressors on coastal birds. His ongoing research of...

Capt. Tyler Nonn runs Tidewater Charters, a fly fishing and light tackle angling operation in the Chesapeake Bay that gets clients onto striped bass, redfish, speckled trout, and cobia....