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| Here's a most extraordinary story most people have never heard of: the
| Menhaden fish. It's unique to American waters and it does two things,
| it cleans the water and it's a food source for the kind of fish we
| like to eat. Sounds simple, right? Menhaden used to number in the
| billions, perhaps trillions, and accounted for the unimaginable bounty
| of the sea and crystal clear waters found by early settlers. But
| having now been fished to the brink of extinction the loss of Menhaden
| is directly responsible for huge dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and
| the Chesapeake Bay, not to mention huge decreases in available game
| and commercial fish.
|
| As H. Bruce Franklin puts it in the title of his book, the Menhaden is
| The Most Important Fish in the Sea. Bruce, a noted literary expert and
| historian of American culture at Rutgers, tells this story in an
| unforgettable way.
|
| There's hope, though, and the Menhaden reduction industry, for all the
| devastation it causes, is a very small one, probably incapable of
| resisting determined political pressure to shut it down. The question
| is, will people rally to demand action quickly enough? If the
| reduction industry were banned within the next few years, the Menhaden
| surely can recover due to their astonishing fertility. But if the
| industry isn't banned the fish may well become extinct within a
| decade.
|
| http://www.electricpolitics.com/podc...ornucopia.html
|

We call them "Bunker". Peanut Bunker, a smaller variety, are a favourite food of Striped
Bass and Blue Fish.

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