The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial ...

ABBEVILLE, LA / ACCESS Newswire / November 5, 2025 / Last week, Backwoods University, a podcast series from the MeatEater network, explored the menhaden fishing industry, known locally as "pogie" ...

File photo of an Osprey with a fish returning to the nest to feed chicks. (Courtesy Dave Gelenter/CBF Staff) Ospreys — the large brown and white birds of prey that rule over the waterways of the ...

Along Louisiana’s working coastlines, a small silver fish powers a vast network of food, health, and agriculture. Known as menhaden, sometimes called pogies, this humble species forms the backbone of ...

“A singular occurrence excited the people of Lewes,” the Smyrna Times reported on Nov. 18, 1874, “and caused them to leave their cottages by the sea and even their churches and go into the fishing ...

With summer in full swing, Chesapeake Bay fishermen, birders and environmentalists are once again faced with the harsh reality that menhaden, the most important fish in the sea, are scarce. Even Omega ...

As it said it would, Cooke Inc. has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed in a federal district court that claims the seafood company is defrauding the U.S. in the operation of the last East Coast ...

VIRGINIA - Consideration of a proposed Virginia bill that would fund a study of menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay has been pushed to at least next year. According to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, House ...

After a long, cold winter, the return of osprey to the Chesapeake Bay this March from their wintering grounds in Central and South America marked a welcome sign of spring. The Chesapeake Bay is home ...

The menhaden, a fish that can produce 700,000 eggs at the flip of a gill, was long one of the leading population exploders in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Loaded with oil and bone, the ...