BATON ROUGE — The Coastal Conservation Association says overfishing is killing fish and damaging the ecosystem, and has called for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to make a public comment on the subject by Friday.
CCA says processing plants located in Louisiana are harvesting 1 billion pounds a year of menhaden for its valuable fish oil.
Rules on the Mississippi Gulf Coast restrict the giant menhaden fishing boats to ½ mile off their coast, but those boats want to fish up to ¼ mile off of the state’s coast, CCA says, arguing this is too close…