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No Records Kept: The Potomac River Fisheries Commission’s Mysterious History...
The Potomac River Fisheries Commission (PRFC) has no record of the votes it has made regarding Atlantic menhaden, the controversial forage fish that has been called “the most important fish in the sea”...
View ArticleMake Your Voice Heard on Atlantic Menhaden Regulations
Decision day is upon us. Now it’s time to weigh in. On December 14th, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) will finally decide how much to cut the allowable harvest of Atlantic...
View ArticleThe Secretive Fishery Management Agency that Regulates Your Fish
On an unseasonably warm evening in September 2011, in Danvers, Massachusetts, a fishery regulator and two biologists were taking comments from the public about the decline of an important forage fish...
View ArticleOmega Protein Hiring Hundreds of Foreign Workers While Boasting of Jobs in...
The little menhaden is creating quite a ripple. An Atlantic coast fisheries commission is expected by week’s end to set a coast wide catch limit for Atlantic menhaden for the first time in history,...
View ArticleUnprotected: a Timeline of Inaction on the Most Important Fish in the Sea
Unprotected: a Menhaden Timeline Menhaden has been called “the most important fish in the sea,” because it forms the base of the Atlantic food web, providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner for important...
View ArticleMaking Waves: Delegate Cites PTP Investigation in Op-Ed
In an op-ed published on SoMdNews.com, Maryland delegate Peter F. Murphy (District 28), highlighted a Public Trust Project investigation that found that Omega Protein had hired hundreds of foreign...
View ArticleOmega Protein Makes Good on Threat to Cut Jobs, but it Doesn’t Have To
Omega Protein employs 250 people in Reedville, VA, mostly factory workers and fishermen who net Atlantic menhaden, taking whole schools of the small, oily fish from the ocean and grinding them into...
View ArticleFeds Propose Limited Immunity for Water Polluters
Agriculture is the largest contributor to water pollution in the U.S., dumping millions of pounds of nitrogen and phosphorous into the nation’s waterways each year. But as the problem worsens and...
View ArticleThe Fish at the Heart of the Food System
By Alison Fairbrother and David Schleifer You have never seen a menhaden, but you have eaten one. Although no one sits down to a plate of these silvery, bug-eyed, foot-long fish at a seafood...
View ArticleThe Race to Save the Chesapeake Bay: New Investigation in the Washington...
The following original Public Trust Project investigation appeared in the March 1, 2014 issue of the Washington Spectator. On a brilliant fall day, Stan Pennington and Eric Hines ride out in a...
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