Louisiana officials are proposing that boats fishing for menhaden must be at least 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) offshore after boats spilled an estimated 850,000 of the small fish on Cameron Parish beaches ...

Louisiana’s coast supports a wide variety of uses, including conservation, recreation, commercial fishing, energy, and ...

This article is brought to you by the Louisiana Commercial Fishing Coalition LLC. The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental ...

Recreational fishing industry leaders are calling on President Trump to limit industrial fishing of forage fish, such as menhaden. Forage fish, also called bait fish, serve as food for other species.

For more than a century, Louisiana’s commercial menhaden fishery has been a pillar of the state’s coastal economy, providing stable jobs, sustaining businesses, and fueling essential industries ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has taken early steps to adjust a buffer zone that would allow commercial menhaden fishing closer to the state’s coastline, reigniting the industry’s ...

The captain of a menhaden ship was cited for fishing within a restricted buffer zone off Terrebonne Parish near Vermillion Bay early this month, the first such citation under new rules. According to ...

As it said it would, Cooke Inc. has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed in a federal district court that claims the seafood company is defrauding the U.S. in the operation of the last East Coast ...

CAMERON, La. (KPLC) - A small victory this week for fishermen and conservationists. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced a Notice of Intent to amend the rules regarding ...

The state Senate passed a bill Wednesday to fund a study by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to calculate menhaden populations in the state. The study would survey the number of fish over 18 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAMERON, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials are ...