A New York Times Magazine investigation by Ian Urbina and the Outlaw Ocean Project finds that fish farming is worsening overfishing rather than easing it. Farmed salmon and shrimp are fed fishmeal ground from wild forage fish. Along the way, that supply chain is tied to illegal fishing, forced labor, pollution, and collapsing fish stocks, and it reaches all the way to U.S. grocery shelves.

The Bait Line returns with a look at why Americans are calling for an end to industrial reduction fishing. From state bans to new polling, the message is clear: it's time to leave menhaden in the water where they belong.

A Washington Post investigation finds that osprey breeding along the Atlantic Coast just had its worst season on record, with scientists increasingly pointing to a shortage of menhaden, the small, oily fish at the base of the food web, as a key driver, even as the menhaden reduction industry disputes the connection.

A new study revisiting one of the largest menhaden tagging datasets ever assembled raises serious questions about how this fishery is managed.

FFC Executive Director Whit Fosburgh argues that if America is serious about putting its industries first, that principle has to extend to the waters where a single Canadian company still benefits from a quarter of the Atlantic's fish catch and half the Gulf's.

The Bait Line's first post traces how failed menhaden management is showing up as thinning bait supplies for lobstermen, a shrinking prey base for osprey and striped bass, and a fishery still run by one Canadian-owned company. FFC Executive Director Whit Fosburgh explains how we got here, and why the Forage Fish Campaign exists to change it.

IGFA President Jason Schratwieser on why menhaden decline threatens gamefish populations, coastal economies, and the future of American fishing.

A year after President Trump called out foreign industrial fishing for depleting menhaden in the Chesapeake, coastal communities are still waiting on the federal action needed to save America's waters and the economies that depend on them.

A new Washington Post opinion piece lays out how the collapse of Atlantic menhaden is now showing up in starving osprey chicks in the Chesapeake, thinning lobster bait supplies in Maine, and fewer striped bass for anglers all along the coast.

Charter captain and former Major League pitcher Todd Redmond argues that while recreational fishermen face strict limits, foreign-controlled industrial fleets are harvesting menhaden in the Gulf virtually without regulation, and only federal action can stop the damage.

In the Anchorage Daily News, Forage Fish Campaign Executive Director Whit Fosburgh argues that industrial fleets depleting American resources are the common thread between Alaska's fisheries alarm and the crisis facing coastal communities on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

Executive Director of the Forage Fish Campaign Whit Fosburgh sat down with Tiffany Meier on Tiffany Meier Tonight to discuss the state of America's fisheries and what is at stake for our coastal communities.

The Forage Fish Campaign is launching its "Where's the Bait?" Tour on July 16, sending coalition leaders across five East Coast states to spotlight the economic toll industrial-scale forage fishing is taking on America's coastal businesses.

Rusty Taylor, Executive Director of the Alewife Harvesters of Maine, writes in the Portland Press Herald that Maine's success in protecting river herring proves the solution is simple: keep industrial midwater trawlers away from migrating fish.

David Gessner reports in Audubon Magazine that osprey chicks across the Chesapeake Bay are starving at disastrous rates, with scientists pointing to one primary cause: the disappearance of menhaden.

A Washington Post op-ed makes the case that menhaden are disappearing at an alarming rate and that without urgent federal action, striped bass could be next.

The Forage Fish Campaign is hiring a Policy Director to lead federal and state advocacy, shape strategy, and build coalition around one of the next major conservation and economic battles taking shape in America's coastal communities.

A new study links poor osprey reproduction across the Chesapeake Bay to reduced menhaden availability, adding urgency to the debate over industrial-scale forage fishing.

A new peer-reviewed study links unprecedented osprey starvation in the Chesapeake Bay to declining menhaden populations, adding urgency to calls for Virginia to pause industrial reduction fishing in the Bay.

The Forage Fish Campaign released national polling showing broad bipartisan support for ending industrial-scale reduction fishing.