50,000 Voices Ignored: Menhaden Disappointment
November 12, 2026
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Too Long, Didn’t Read Over two days in Newport, the ASMFC Menhaden Board set the 2027–2028 coastwide TAC at 170,000 and 155,000 metric tons, well above the roughly 114,200 mt the science pointed to[1], and above the fewer than 147,000 mt the fishery actually landed in 2025[3]. A Massachusetts motion
