As it said it would, Cooke Inc. has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed in a federal district court that claims the seafood company is defrauding the U.S. in the operation of the last East Coast ...

The sight, and odor, of dead menhaden on the Shrewsbury and Navesink river banks is expected to continue for the near future, according to the state's Division of Fish and Wildlife. The fish have been ...

An unusual winter-spring die-off of a common baitfish species called menhaden around Long Island this spring is part of a larger phenomenon seen from New Jersey to Rhode Island and is tied to the ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan dismissed a case against Cooke Seafood Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates that alleged it defrauded the U.S. in the operation of its East Coast menhaden ...

DARIEN — In a year of strange and unprecedented events, one has found its way to Darien shores. Residents report an increase in dead fish on area waterways, one particularly at Ring’s End Bridge near ...

The clock is ticking on an effort by local baymen to maintain a sustainable local fishery for Atlantic menhaden through legislation that would ban large commercial purse seine boats from gobbling up ...

Over the years, anglers have advocated for conservation measures for Atlantic menhaden (commonly called pogies or bunker). Anglers that believe in ecosystem-based management feel we need to leave ...

One of the things that make striped bass such popular targets along the coast from New England to the Mid-Atlantic is their diversity. You can find them picking off crabs and shrimp along back bay sod ...

Can I get a show of hands from anglers who remember when the bunker schools in Long Island Sound were as common as seagulls and were measured not in square feet but in acres? One, two, three ... gee, ...

About 200,000 juvenile menhaden died in a fish kill off Rehoboth Bay Thursday due to a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water, according to the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays. "We have widespread ...