Date: 9/27/26 9:03 am From: Louise via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] THE WASHINGTON POST: Ospreys made a great comeback. Now they’re in crisis along the East Coast.
Thanks for the info, Dan. Non-paywalled link for those who need one.
At the Reedville plant, menhaden are processed on an industrial scale into
fishmeal, fish oil and other products. Its exclusive supplier, Ocean
Harvesters, caught nearly 300 million pounds
<https://archive.is/o/X9MuJ/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/19/fight-save-tiny-fish-powering-atlantic-coast/> of Atlantic menhaden for the plant in 2024. That scale alone has made the
fleet impossible to ignore in the debate over how many menhaden are being
left for everything else that eats them.
Louise Rutter
Kirkland
On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 7:41 AM Dan Reiff via Tweeters <
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> *Ospreys made a great comeback. Now they’re in crisis along the East
> Coast.*
> At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife
> comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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> Read in The Washington Post: https://apple.news/AXaSSkrMFRgitypo0uww6Pg >
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