The menhaden went away, and so did the other fish.

Menhaden have been called 'the most important fish in the sea'.

You may have gone through life without ever hearing about a fish called menhaden.

The menhaden are swallowed whole after the head has been removed.

The Atlantic menhaden is popular for use as live or dead bait.

In fact, by the 1950s there was 112 fishing vessels being used to catch menhaden.

Menhaden have historically been used as a fertilizer for crops.

Small pods of menhaden were on the surface riding the current.

Menhaden, which can be found close to shore in summer, are also an excellent bait.

Each time they did this, small bits of menhaden would fall from their beaks to the water.

Much of the time, you'll be fishing live menhaden in the area where you snagged them, but this isn't always so.

The closest schools of menhaden were in a harbor on the mainland more than five miles away.

Menhaden may locally account for 90-95% of their food.

Menhaden fishing is one of America's older commercial industries, dating back to the 1800s.

So far, scientists have found little evidence that anything but menhaden have been affected.

It was then that one of them got the idea that live menhaden might do the trick.

Menhaden, which are ocean spawners, may show up along the shore all summer.

Menhaden is managed with limits on fishing in order to help the species population grow.

It also produced protein products from the menhaden fish.

Menhaden's maximum length is 15 inches with a varied weight range.

The fish, menhaden, were diseased and dying, they know, but that is where the answers stop.

Those who continued to catch bass shifted to live-lining menhaden.

Margaret, a 273-gross-ton menhaden fishing trawler, was built in 1912.

The Dutch colonists began reusing the name to describe the menhaden.

The cooperation that made it possible to harvest menhaden with muscle power shines through the music.

Brevoortia tyrannus (Atlantic menhaden).

Desseria brevoortiae - Brevoortia tyrannus

Feeding ecology of the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) in Chesapeake Bay.

The Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is a silvery, highly compressed fish in the herring family, Clupeidae.

The Spurwink River supports blueback herring, Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), American shad, pollock, cunner, winter flounder, and little skate.

Evidence from morphology and DNA analyses suggest that the Gulf menhaden is the Gulf of Mexico complement to the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus).

The most important prey of this species in the northwestern Atlantic is the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), with sharks of all ages off northwestern Florida eat almost nothing else.