July 7, 2025 — Conservation and environmental groups will finally get the results of the first independent study on bycatch involving the commercial menhaden fishery industry off the Louisiana coast.
The report is a major agenda item during Tuesday’s 9:30 a.m. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting set for state Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters on Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.
The study is part of a settlement forced by Gov. Jeff Landry in 2024. Groups opposed to menhaden fishery operations sought a one-mile “buffer” off the coast. The settlement with the two major foreign-owned fishery companies set a half-mile buffer zone coastwide with at least one area, Grand Isle, maintaining a three-mile ban on the take of menhaden from its beach.