These larger animals include the great schools of fish, such as tuna, menhaden, cod and mackerel, which we catch for food. |
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Frigatebirds feed primarily on flying fish, but will also take menhaden, squid or jellyfish. |
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The town was founded in 1874, and it did well for itself thanks to a small, oily, bony fish called menhaden. |
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Fresh, fat squid make good baits, although most pier fishermen sling chunks of fresh menhaden or mullet, which hold the hook better in flight. |
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But menhaden are not predators like blue runners and bumper, and can't be caught on sabiki rigs. |
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A small, oily fish — also called bunker or pogy — the Atlantic menhaden is rarely eaten by humans, and little known outside of coastal circles. |
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The easy way to catch big fish in nearshore water off Texas is to drift dead baits, such as menhaden, ribbonfish or mullet, skewered onto large circle hooks. |
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Large numbers of menhaden are netted annually. |
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Being a saltwater species, one would be inclined to think that menhaden would range along the pond's narrow barrier beach, where the water's salinity would be higher. |
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The Company also operates more than 30 vessels to harvest menhaden, a fish abundantly found in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. |
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Rhode Island still has baitfish, notably squid, sand eels, menhaden and mullet, though the latter seem to be slowly dispersing elsewhere. |
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Most of this meal is made of ground-up anchovies, menhaden or sardines. |
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There is menhaden meal, which comes out of the Gulf of Mexico. |
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The Gulf menhaden occurs throughout the Gulf of Mexico, but its distribution is patchy. |
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Gulf menhaden also may have a presence on the southern Atlantic coast of Florida, although this finding is based primarily upon DNA evidence. |
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Like their Atlantic counterpart, Gulf menhaden have a prominent black spot found behind the gill cover followed by a row of smaller spots. |
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Larval gulf menhaden feed primary on zooplankton because the rakers are not well developed. |
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The juveniles, which generally correspond to when they are under the age of 1, Gulf menhaden feed more on phytoplankton. |
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As they age and their gill rakers fully developed, menhaden shift their diet to primarily consume phytoplankton. |
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Gulf menhaden are harvested primarily for fish meal and fish oil based products. |
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Alternately, dead cigar minnows, ribbonfish, Spanish sardines or even frozen menhaden will do the trick. |
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The other aspect of menhaden not covered in the excellent article is its unique ability to clean up harbors and estuaries by virtue of its filter feeding. |
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It says that when John Smith came here in the seventeenth century, there were so many menhaden in the Bay that he could catch them with a frying pan. |
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As a result, migration at this stage can be lengthy, and populations of Gulf menhaden throughout the Gulf of Mexico are generally thought to comprise a single genetic stock. |
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The Gulf menhaden fishery is one of the largest in the United States. |
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A much smaller number of menhaden are caught for use as bait. |
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In addition to being one of the largest fisheries in the US, the Gulf menhaden fishery has also been recognized internationally for its sustainability. |
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Like the striped bass and other marine life that are so dependent on menhaden, fishermen and businesses are inextricably linked to its long-term survival. |
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The range of Gulf menhaden encompasses the entirety of the Gulf of Mexico nearshore waters, with the exception of the extreme eastern Yucatan and western Cuba. |
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Both species support large commercial reduction fisheries, with Gulf menhaden supporting the second largest fishery, by weight, in the United States. |
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Friend of the Sea, an international seafood sustainability certification program, has recognized both the Atlantic menhaden and Gulf menhaden fisheries as sustainable. |
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She was retrofitted again in 2005 to purse seine menhaden for bait. |
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Gulf menhaden are commonly 8 inches in length but can reach 12 inches. |
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Dietary menhaden oil contributes to hepatic lipidosis in laying hens. |
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Mycobacteria were recovered from Atlantic menhaden, white perch, blueback herring, largemouth bass, mummichog, striped killifish, summer flounder, weakfish, and spot. |
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