Osprey fans are crying in a billion pounds of a billion pounds of the fishing industry in a valuable food source

“Birds never left here this year,” said Virginia near the mouth Chesapeake Bay. “And this is an example we have seen in the last two years.”

It has a more intimate relationship with Vatts ospreys The majority of people have a bird – to release them from plastic bags, rose to their nests to keep them up and watch their eggs with telescopic mirrors.

Gymnastics is the American conservation success story that eats fish, known as a cinips similar to divers and whistles. After relevant the country’s ban in 1972, after relief of the country after the pesticides and other dangers, and now the numbers in the United States

However, Vatts documented an alarming trend. In many parts of the United States, the greedy birds, the main population of the Chesapeake Bay cannot successfully burn. The long-timed biologist accuses the decrease of Menhaden’s decrease in a small school fish that is critical for the Osprey diet. Without eating Menhaden, the puppies are hungry and die in the nests, watts.

Osprey is an environmental indicator

The claim of the VATS put him environmental groups that bet on the fishing industry, trade unions and sometimes government regulators. Menhaden is a fish oil, fish meal and agricultural dish, as well as for bait.

US fishermen have taken at least 1.1 billion pounds of menhaden every year since 1951. Industrial members checked his sustainability and said that the decline in Osprey had nothing to do with fishing.

However, helpless, Osprey population can fall into unprecedented levels since dark days DdtVirginia, Director of the Biology Center, Watts, Watts, Conservation Biology Center Director of Watts, Watts, Watts, Watts, Conservation Biology Center in Williamsburg in Virginia.

“Osprey shouts very loudly, ‘Hey, Menhaden for us successfully for us,” he said. “We must listen to the fishing side and take action on the fishing side. But the day did not win the day. ”

Landscaping associated with the menhaden in research

Vatts studying Osprei in Chesapeake for decades, supported the allegations of decline in the implementation of scientific works magazine. Said to be boiling on a simple statistics – to protect the population, Osprey couples need an average of 1.15 pumpkins in the year.

Osprey increased this level in the 1980s, but today in some areas around Cezapeake’s mainstay, it is less than half of it, watts. Especially in difficulty areas, this level did not increase one in one of it. The decrease in Menhaden, which exists, is in line with nest deficiency areas, Watts.

Also called pogies or bunkers, oily menhaden is especially important for young birds, because it is more nutritious than other fish in the sea. Osprey “reproductive performance is inseparably associated with the existence and abundance of Menhaden”, ” Watts wrote in a study in 2023 Was published in the borders in maritime science.

The conservatives have been concerned years, many Menhadenin said they were removed to protect the crucial role in the ocean food chain. Historian H. Bruce Franklin went until the beginning of the 2007 book on Menhaden in 2007 ” Sea”

The fishing industry is pushing back

Menhaden helps support one of the world’s largest fishing in the docks in 2023. It is used as a bait, the fish is critical for precious trade targets such as Maine Lobster. Sportfishermen is also cute.

Reedville, Virginia, the company’s Omega protein, the company, is dominated by the company’s omega protein, a subsidiary of a giant Cooke of the Canadian acvaculture of the industry. Menhaden’s accumulation is carried out by Ocean Harveesters and Omega-based Reedville, OCEAN geeers. Companies returned because of the reason for the decline in Fishing Osprey, although they accepted less menhaden in some parts of the region.

The Federal Data Show Osprey breeder said in many parts of the country, including Menhaden’s spokesman, Omega spokesman. Climate change, contamination and development can play a role, the company and others said and others.

Damaged fishing “Only the environmental special groups affect the process,” he said. Landri.

New rules can be on the road

Menhaden fishing, Atlantic states are governed by the Marine Fisheries Commission, designate the rules and determine fishing quotas. Asked with questions about Ospreys, he created a working group to solve the spare control of species in the Gulf of Chesapeake.

In April, this group offered several potential management approaches, including seasonal packaging, quotas or sea or offshore and fish catching facilities. The process of creating new rules can begin this summer, James Boyle, Fishing Management Plan coordinator with the commission.

The population of Osprey has indeed has shown that in some areas since 2012, but it is important to remember that the DDT is larger than not prohibited.

“Since the DDT period, there have been great increase in the population of Osprey,” Boyle, since the 1960s, increased six times along the Oslantic coast.

Environmentalists say that the bird can worsen the landing

There are many environmental groups, any decline. This irritates some labor leaders who are worried about reducing more work as a fishing industry.

Kenny Pinkart, UFCW said he felt the vice president of the 400-year-old 400 management and for a long time, the vice president of the industry, the industry was scapit.

“There are some people who do not want to see us in general,” he said.

However, Virginia, Virginia Executive Director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, if no action was taken, he lost a iconic bird and lost the risk of the country. It shows that Osprey will fail without access to Menhaden.

“Osprey became a success story,” he said. “We are in a situation where they do not replace their numbers. In fact, we will be in a steep slope.”

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Reported from Whitt, Portland, Maine.

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