Anglers, environmentalists push for partial moratorium on Chesapeake menhaden catch

Sportfishing groups and environmentalists are calling for a partial moratorium on Virginia’s menhaden reduction fishery, citing troubling declines of certain bird and fish species that feed on them.

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