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logo 11/28/2024 12:47:46 PM     
Virginias long, fiery fight over menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay continues to heat up 
By Katherine Hafner US Source: whro 2/12/2024
Katherine Hafner
Credit: Katherine Hafner
On a breezy afternoon, Chris Dollar launched his boat into the Ware River in Gloucester. Pulling away from the dock, he pointed to small ripples in the water: jumping menhaden, a small, silver fish that has found itself at the center of one of the most heated and longest-running debates in the state.
 

Dollar has spent his life on the Chesapeake Bay. He owns a charter fishing business, equipping sportfishers and taking them out on the water to catch local favorites like striped bass.

Menhaden, he said, are “not a glamorous fish.”

“I wouldn't call them ugly,” Dollar said with a laugh. “But I wouldn't call them poster children for the Chesapeake writ large.”

 
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