WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / May 5, 2026 / Just over a month ago, Will Poston of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation once again published false and misleading claims about Virginia's menhaden fishery. Just as CBF did in a March email falsely connecting natural fish die-offs to the menhaden fishery, Poston presents advocacy as science, speculation as fact, and political talking points as settled biology.
Poston's piece is built around a series of assertions that cannot stand up to the actual record.
Start with his effort to portray Virginia's 2026 legislative session as proof that industry influence defeated "meaningful conservation measures." What lawmakers rejected were proposals that would have imposed sweeping new restrictions without first establishing any biological basis for them. Atlantic menhaden are not unmanaged, and they are not being harvested in some regulatory vacuum. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) manages this stock under ecological reference points specifically designed to account for the species' forage role, and the Commission continues to report the stock is not overfished and that overfishing is not occurring. The fishery is also certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council, the international gold standard for seafood sustainability.
Then there is Poston's claim that "new coastwide science found the population of menhaden is nearly 40 percent smaller than previously estimated." This is one of the most misleading...
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