As fisheries managers prepare to meet November 9–12 in Newport, Rhode Island, the Chesapeake Bay is running out of excuses for inaction.

As ASMFC heads into its Nov. 9-12 annual meeting, editor Jim Hutchinson, Jr. points to a report that Canada prohibits boats from fishing solely to make fish meal and oil, and asks why the U.S. shouldn’t do the same. New Jersey banned menhaden reduction fishing inside 3 miles more than 25 years ago, he notes, and it’s time to take that into federal waters.

One small fish makes up a huge share of what comes out of the Gulf and the Atlantic. Whit Fosburgh explains what ecosystem overfishing means, how reduction fishing drives it, and why next month’s ASMFC decision matters.

They have their claims. We have the facts. A point-by-point response to the menhaden industry’s arguments on ownership, ospreys, quotas and the New York Bight.

A new Washington Post report finds that dozens of federal and state lawmakers are urging limits on industrial menhaden fishing after the Chesapeake Bay’s worst osprey breeding season on record. It also covers the petition from New York and New Jersey fishing groups asking the Commerce Department to ban commercial menhaden fishing off their coasts, as regulators prepare to vote on the Bay cap Nov. 10.

Newsday reports that a coalition of charter captains, bait and tackle shops and party boats has filed a formal petition asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for an immediate seasonal halt to industrial menhaden fishing in the New York Bight.

New Jersey and New York fishing groups, charter captains and businesses are urging Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to take emergency action and halt industrial menhaden fishing in the New York-New Jersey Bight.

The full petition and cover letter asking the Commerce Department to protect the New York-New Jersey Bight from industrial menhaden reduction fishing. It explains why the Bight matters, how menhaden support the region’s fisheries, and what the petitioners are requesting.

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.

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.