The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s draft addendum would reduce the Bay-specific menhaden catch limits for the fishery, Ocean Harvesters, which contracts with Omega Protein. Reduction fisheries catch menhaden in purse seine nets to then grind them up into fish meal and oil. One is to decrease the Bay cap by 10 to 50%. The draft also suggests adding language directing the management board to either tie the Bay catch cap to coast-wide cap fluctuations, or to review the Bay cap every three years. Virginia this year allocated funding for in-depth Bay menhaden research, which will support a multi-year study into menhaden within the Chesapeake Bay and how policies could be shaped around the findings.