Category: Menhaden
WE’VE Moved the Line for Menhaden
On August 5th, Atlantic menhaden management reached a critical milestone. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Atlantic Menhaden Management Board voted unanimously to adopt ecological reference points (ERPs) that will be used to set annual catch levels for the Atlantic coast. With so many predators – from bluefish and ...
Commerce Secretary Upholds Chesapeake Bay Menhaden Cap
Virginia’s Menhaden Fishery to Shut Down in June 2020 if it Doesn’t Take Action to Comply with the Bay Cap The U.S. Department of Commerce is standing by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) decision to find the Commonwealth of Virginia out of compliance with a critical measure in ...
Tell Secretary Ross to Uphold the Menhaden Bay Cap
"Atlantic menhaden are a critically important – perhaps the most important – forage species for some of the Atlantic coast’s most iconic species, including those that support valuable recreational and commercial fisheries." –Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
3. MEETING RESISTANCE
The third in a series of blogs, A Question of Science, which looks at changes in the way we assess the health of one of our most important prey species. In the first two parts of this series I described how the 2010 Atlantic menhaden stock assessment was scrapped after it triggered ...
OCEAN VIEW
Here’s our latest Ocean View editorial, just one of the features that appears in our member newsletter, the Wild Oceans Horizon. For access to more insightful articles and fisheries news written by our staff, please consider supporting Wild Oceans as a member. Is the menhaden fishery certifiably “sustainable”? Not yet it isn’t. The Marine Stewardship Council ...
2. LOSING CONFIDENCE
The second in a series of blogs, A Question of Science, which looks at changes in the way we assess the health of one of our most important prey species. I started following and attending Atlantic menhaden stock assessments on a regular basis in 1999. That same year, as a ...
WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED
Introduction to a new blog series, A Question of Science, reflecting on how the health of Atlantic menhaden, one of the most important prey fish in the sea, is assessed. Confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s preconceptions. – Science Daily ...
THE YEAR LOOKED GOOD ON PAPER
The following editorial appears in the Winter 2018 edition of The Wild Oceans Horizon. Become a member to receive our newsletter on a regular basis. The Year Looked Good on Paper by Ken Hinman We did everything we could to get where we wanted to be. But it turned out not to ...
ECO-FAIL
Ecological Reference Points for Menhaden are Ready, But Menhaden Managers Are Not by Ken Hinman, November 17, 2017 Earlier this week, the ASMFC’s Menhaden Management Board, meeting in Baltimore to finalize Amendment 3 to its Atlantic Menhaden Management Plan, voted to wait at least another two years before adopting catch limits ...
For Menhaden, Time to Act is Here and Now
Draft Amendment 3 to the Interstate Management Plan for Atlantic Menhaden Finally Offers a Way to Protect “The Most Important Fish in the Sea” by Ken Hinman In nature, you cannot do just one thing, as Walter Youngquist puts it, because everything is connected to everything else. That’s why you ...
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