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Employee and community letters call for Bay-specific research before further cuts threaten jobs and local economies
UFCW Local 400 Chief Shop Steward Darawn Kenner says former Northam administration official showed "so little regard for blue-collar workers"
Retired vessel deployed at Delaware Reef Site 13, continuing longstanding tradition of repurposing decommissioned vessels as marine habitat
Board Sends Flawed Chesapeake Bay Addendum to Public Comment Despite Admitting That Essential Scientific Information Does Not Exist
Second Circuit Upholds Complete Dismissal of All Claims Asserted by Private Relators
Proposal fails to establish a biological problem, omits serious economic warnings, and threatens livelihoods of union and African American working families before ongoing research is complete.
KEY POINTS
No demonstrated biological problem. The draft relies on statements about what "may" happen, what "could" occur, or what is "possible," while acknowledging that sufficient data do not exist.
The ASMFC's own record does not support new restrictions. The current Bay Cap is already highly precautionary, and the Technical Committee found no consistent relationship between fishing timing and Maryland pound-net catches.
Critical economic warnings were omitted. The addendum leaves out the ASMFC's Committee on Economics and Social Sciences warnings of structural unemployment, a minimum operating volume threshold, and a possible 100 percent shutdown.
Civil rights and labor concerns have been raised. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference expresses concern that African American workers, union families, and rural communities may be disproportionately affected.
The research is not finished. The ASMFC is considering new restrictions before work intended to support a scientifically based Bay Cap is complete.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation continues decades-long misinformation campaign against Virginia's blue-collar menhaden fishermen
Study catalogs legitimate osprey concerns but does not establish fishery causation
Independent Study Confirms Minimal Impact on Bycatch, Underscoring Fishery's Sustainable Practices
Osprey nest failures occurred prior to menhaden fishing
