Local residents counted more than 300 dead redfish among the hundreds of thousands of dead menhaden lining the shore. Nearly a million dead fish washed ashore along the southwest Louisiana coastline ...

Charter boat captains the past couple of years have found a niche fishery along the coast that has helped fill the void caused by a decline in offshore trips for marlin and tuna. But in the past week, ...

The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is considering new rules that would push commercial menhaden fishing farther offshore and increase penalties for wasted fish. The proposals come three ...

Louisiana officials are proposing that boats fishing for menhaden must be at least 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) offshore after boats spilled an estimated 850,000 of the small fish on Cameron Parish beaches ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial menhaden fishing closer to the state’s coastline, reigniting the industry’s ...

The clock is ticking on an effort by local baymen to maintain a sustainable local fishery for Atlantic menhaden through legislation that would ban large commercial purse seine boats from gobbling up ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) – Del. Tim Anderson (R-Va. 83rd District) says decades of menhaden harvesting in the Chesapeake Bay has been long enough. He’s calling what happened off Silver Beach earlier this ...

The second set went fast — the 150,000 menhaden in the net not as “heavy” — that is, as frisky swimmers — as the fish in the Cockrells Creek’s first haul, farther down along the York Spit Channel a ...

LONG BEACH, Miss. -- Skimmer boats were out in the Mississippi Sound today collecting what was left of about 400,000 dead fish that spilled from menhaden boats. The spill occurred Monday while boats ...

Officer Junior Fisher of the Virginia Marine Patrol hears the complaints almost every day about the recreational fishing season in the Chesapeake Bay. Commissioner Bill Pruitt of the Virginia Marine ...

A decision on the most significant restrictions ever proposed for Louisiana's largest fishery will have to wait. On Thursday, the state Wildlife and Fisheries Commission decided not to decide on ...