The first three times I fished for Cobia this summer the bay there was 8 or 9 menhaden boats out in the bay east of windmill point. The bay was covered up by them and two planes circling overhead, it was disgusting. We didn't get a bite all day. This is industrial rape of the bay. What would the Bay look like if we had massive schools of filter feeders constantaly cleaning the water. Virginia is allowing all this protein to be removed from the Chesapeake Ecosystem and shifted to an aquaculture ecosystem in Canada. Imagine if our apex species had that abundance of protien here???  Its discuting what we are allowing in Virginia. Other states had the good sense to stop this rape and unwise use.