A source for insights into forage fish issues from Herring Alliance members, outside experts and fishermen
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In just five years, the Herring Alliance has grown from twelve organizations to more than 50! We are proud to announce that the coalition is now 52-members strong, and look forward to continuing our work to protect herring and other small fish that are critically important to predator fish, marine mammals, birds and our ocean ecosystems with our partners.
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By Alison Fairbrother
Originally posted on The Public Trust Project blog
May 18 2012
At a meeting this week in North Carolina, government scientists were largely silent on the question of how the Atlantic menhaden population should be assessed in 2012.
Fishing industry consultants, on the other hand, dominated the process — so much so that some in attendance questioned whether efforts by industry representatives to steer the discussion might have violated protocol.
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River herring are small fish with a big impact on our river and marine ecosystems. Massive industrial fishing boats began targeting Atlantic herring in ocean waters in the mid-1990s, and scoop up an alarming number of river herring. A new river herring stock assessment confirms that ocean bycatch is a serious threat to river herring recovery.
Unfortunately, their life history (they’re born in freshwater streams but spend most of their lives in the ocean) has river herring falling through the cracks of the management system, and has led to an inadequate patchwork of state, interstate, and federal rules.
Check out our map detailing this river herring robbery and write a letter to help protect these fish!
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Posted on Tuesday, March 6
River herring, an important but severely depleted fish species on the East Coast, may finally get much-needed protections from unregulated ocean catch. Managers will soon vote on a new set of rules to regulate industrial trawlers, vessels which scoop up millions of these fish off our coast each year. Throughout March and April, there are opportunities for all of us – including you – to voice concerns and take actions to ensure that river herring populations, and the ecosystems they support, will remain healthy for generations.
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Recently we covered the pending bans on fishing for river herring in most Atlantic state waters. But what protections are afforded to these fish when they travel beyond states’ jurisdiction three miles from shore into federally-controlled waters? Unfortunately, none. As Roger Fleming of Earthjustice pointed out, there is essentially an unregulated fishery for river herring in federal waters with no plan in place to monitor and limit their capture.
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