While raising the coastwide catch for menhaden, the commission left its quota for the reduction fishery in the Chesapeake Bay unchanged at 51,000 metric tons, or about 244 million fish, based on ...

Piles of fish meal, made from menhaden, at Omega Protein's reduction plant in Reedville, Virginia in December. The fish meal is used in products like pet food and for feeding farm-raised salmon ...