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Thanks, Lynda! At least you gave me a choice between Yum! and Yuck!  (maybe).
Sandy
 
 
In a message dated 2/11/2009 9:19:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
lurine AT com-pair.net writes:

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

Lynda
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From:  <Bunjov AT aol.com>

> 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
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>
> 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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