This effort to modify the Menhaden industrial fishing is long overdue for these reasons:
ASMFC single stock assessment of Menhaden on the East Coast ignores the unique biology in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem - how rude and ignorant can our scientists be to treat the ocean and bay as a single ecosystem?
VMRC and VIMs adopt the ridiculous quota setting by ASMFC and say the same ridiculous thing - that there is no difference between the ocean and Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem - VMRC senior leaders stated to me as much in person.