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What are menhaden?
Menhaden
are silvery, herring-like fish that travel in large
schools along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the
United States. Plankton-eaters, menhaden attain a weight of
about three-quarters of a pound.
Flesh
is oily and considered inedible for humans. The fish are caught
by purse-seine nets in shallow water and processed into oil
for cosmetics and fish meal for animals, particularly for
poultry. Menhaden support the largest fishery by volume and
the eighth most profitable fishery in the United States.
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