Menhaden are a natural resource for all Virginians and users of the Chesapeake Bay. They are the primary keystone species that feeds almost all the other animals in the ecosystem. Their primary function should not be as an industrialized food pellet for Canadian fish farming. Canadian owned Omega Protein takes our resource at pennies on the dollar, lining their pockets at the expense of tens of thousands (not just a couple hundred) of Virginians who require a healthy abundant Chesapeake Bay to make a living.

Your mandate is to manage this resource for everyone. We ask that you manage it for abundance.

It is time to make sure that bay specific science tells us what is sustainable and what is not, before it is too late. www.saveourmenhaden.org