Virginia is the only state on the Atlantic coast that allows Industrial Reduction Fishing.

Osprey reproduction in the lower Chesapeake Bay during the 2023 season was at an all time low.

A multi-decade study by the Center for Conservation Biology at William and Mary has the data to support the impacts of the over-harvesting of menhaden upon the ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay. 

The VMRC is allowing OMEGA a Canadian-owned industrial reduction fishery in Virginia to use purse seine nets to over-harvest the number 1 keystone species in the Bay, the Atlantic Menhaden.

THIS MUST STOP - NOW