Tell them to move the ships off the beach.

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Menhaden are the fish that everything else eats: ospreys, whales, dolphins, striped bass, and bluefish all depend on them. A 2026 study of 571 osprey nests in the Chesapeake Bay found that where ospreys depend on menhaden, two out of three pairs raised nothing at all, and it is getting worse every year: 2026 was the worst breeding season ever recorded.

Ten Atlantic states already ban reduction fishing in their own waters, out to three miles. Virginia is the one holdout, home to the last reduction plant on the coast, on the Chesapeake Bay. The states' fisheries commission cut the 2026 catch limit twenty percent, and it barely mattered: landings had already come in just four tenths of a percent under the new number. Federal water past the three-mile line is still open, and that is where the ships go, taking the same fish that striped bass and bluefish need to survive, along with the anglers and coastal towns who depend on them. Striped bass themselves are already overfished under the fisheries commission's own current assessment. Menhaden's collapse is not an isolated problem; it is compounding a crisis the commission is already failing to fix.

The ask: a twelve nautical mile buffer, industrial reduction vessels only, year‑round. Menhaden has no federal management plan, so the Secretary of Commerce can act on this directly, without waiting on the states.

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