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Article: Menhaden in the middle: the once lowly pogy today is sought by commercial and sport fishermen, fish farms and health enthusiasts.(In Analysis)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Worldwide demand for fisherman feed combined with menhaden's popularity among anglers and others and increasing demand for Omega-3 fatty acids among the health conscious mean there are plenty of people with an interest in this lowly forage fish that leaves an oil slick in its wake.
Omega Protein Corp.'s effort to redefine menhaden as both a bulk industrial protein source and a human foodstuff got attention in 2003, not only from mysterious South American stock speculators but from recreational fishing activists.
"Menhaden comprise a very large part of the striped bass diet," says Tim Hobbs, who last summer spearheaded a petition drive by the National ...