Menhaden management board advances addendum with potential cuts to Chesapeake Bay fishery limits

By: Shannon Heckt

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: August 6, 2026

Words: 1,015

Last Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago

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The regional board overseeing menhaden management along the Atlantic coast on Wednesday advanced a measure to implement new restrictions on Virginia’s only reduction fishery that harvests the oily forage fish within the Chesapeake Bay.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s draft addendum would reduce the Bay-specific menhaden catch limits for the fishery, Ocean Harvesters, which contracts with Omega Protein. Other changes include harvest time period quotas to aid in menhaden migration.

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