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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Local residents counted more than 300 dead redfish among the hundreds of thousands of dead menhaden lining the shore. Nearly a ...

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 ...

State commissioners at a packed meeting in Baton Rouge on Thursday approved a proposal to ease some regulations on Louisiana's controversial menhaden fishing industry while adding additional ...

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 ...

A menhaden fishing boat overwhelmed by an unexpectedly big catch let loose a massive raft of dead fish off the coast of southwest Louisiana last week, sparking outrage from conservation groups and ...

The fight is back on over regulation of menhaden fishing off the Louisiana coast, with the state legislature entering the fray. Lawmakers’ proposals so far favor recreational anglers and charter ...

Two boats slide off the back of their mothership and into the Gulf’s green waters. Then the real work begins. With waves rocking them, the boats begin to separate, unspooling a net bigger than five ...

Three massive fish spills that coated waves and beaches off the southwest coast of Louisiana last week has renewed calls for tighter restrictions on the menhaden industry. Two menhaden fishing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAMERON, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials are ...