Local residents counted more than 300 dead redfish among the hundreds of thousands of dead menhaden lining the shore. Nearly a million dead fish washed ashore along the southwest Louisiana coastline ...

The last surviving member of the Menhaden Chanteymen of Beaufort's former industry has died, but while "Fishtowne's" processing plant and its associated aroma are in the past, the once-proud laborers' ...

The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is considering new rules that would push commercial menhaden fishing farther offshore and increase penalties for wasted fish. The proposals come three ...

Louisiana officials are proposing that boats fishing for menhaden must be at least 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) offshore after boats spilled an estimated 850,000 of the small fish on Cameron Parish beaches ...

In 2022, a menhaden fishing ship and its net boats spilled about a million fish off the Louisiana coast, leaving the floating mass to rot in the summer sun. A few months later, another spill blanketed ...

State commissioners at a packed meeting in Baton Rouge on Thursday approved a proposal to ease some regulations on Louisiana's controversial menhaden fishing industry while adding additional ...

Pushing commercial menhaden fishing farther off the Louisiana coast may appease anglers and conservationists, but it would come at a heavy cost to the industry, according to a new report from state ...

REEDVILLE, Va. -- January is the off-season for fishing in Virginia, and typically Frederick Rogers and the other menhaden fishermen on the Northern Neck would be repairing their gear, taking ...

“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 ...

A fishing crew off the Louisiana coast reels in a large net full of menhaden. (Courtesy of Louisiana Sea Grant) In 2022, a menhaden fishing ship and its net boats spilled about a million fish off the ...

A decision on the most significant restrictions ever proposed for Louisiana's largest fishery will have to wait. On Thursday, the state Wildlife and Fisheries Commission decided not to decide on ...