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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Shad.  Although you probably know them best as fish oil or fish meal <g>

Lynda
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> Never heard of these!
> Could they be known by another name?
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave (where there are few fish)
>
>
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> Sent:  2/11/2009 4:32:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
> Subj: Peak Menhaden by Alice  Friedemann
>
>
> Peak Menhaden
> by Alice Friedemann
>
> Read the  complete article at: http://culturechange.org/go.html?322
>
> Very few  people have heard of menhaden, but they're the most important
> fish in the  Atlantic and gulf waters, and they're almost gone. I'd never
> heard of  menhaden until my husband, who grew up in Florida,  mentioned
> them.
>
> "When we were swimming and the menhaden came through  -- they looked like
> the shadow of a large, approaching cloud -- the water  boiled with fish,
> and everyone got out as fast as they could because there  were sharks
> slashing through them, biting at anything that moved," he told  me.
>
> In The Most Important Fish in the Sea. Menhaden and America, Island  Press
> 2007, H. Bruce Franklin describes menhaden schools as acting like a 
> single
> organism: "flashes of silver with flips of forked tails and  splashes,
> whirling swiftly … in moves more dazzling than those of a modern  dancer,
> as they seek escape from hordes of bluefish below and gulls...  above... a
> breathtaking experience".
>
> ...
>
> > From the 1860's  to today, the weight of menhaden harvested is more than
> the combined weight  of all other commercial fish -- more than all the
> salmon, cod, tuna,  halibut, herring, swordfish, flounder, snapper,
> anchovies, mackerel, and so  on.
>
> State by state, the menhaden industry wiped out menhaden and  went
> bankrupt, but didn't die out completely, because the U.S. government 
> spent
> taxpayer money to keep the industry going in states where menhaden  still
> existed. There was no reason to do this -- menhaden oil, animal feed,  and
> fertilizer had been replaced with much cheaper petroleum and  soybean
> substitutes. The place menhaden inhabit in the ocean's food  chain,
> however, is irreplaceable.
>
> Now one company, Omega Protein,  catches the majority of menhaden, with 32
> spotter planes directing a fleet  of 61 ships. Their spotting planes and
> vessels can find and catch the few  remaining schools, since they swim
> close to the surface. They make poultry  feed and fishmeal for farmed
> salmon out the menhaden, products that can be  made more cheaply from
> plants.
>
> ...
> Read the complete article at:  http://culturechange.org/go.html?322
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