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Cooke’s Omega accepts menhaden fishing restriction to avoid Chesapeake Bay ban

The company overcame significant protests and averted a complete ban on purse seining Brevoortia tyrannus within a nautical mile of the bay's shoreline

By Nick Sambides Jr. | Dec. 6, 2022 22:26 GMT
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission discusses a ban of commercial purse seine menhaden fishing in the Chesapeake Bay. Photo captured by Nick Sambides Jr./Undercurrent News
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Commercial menhaden catcher Omega Protein has agreed to avoid fishing the immediate shoreline of Chesapeake Bay on summer weekends in the US state of Virginia in response to a furor over company fish spills and kills [...]

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