Op-Ed Contributor - A Fish Oil Story - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - A Fish Oil Story - NYTimes.com:

"For the last decade, one company, Omega Protein of Houston, has been catching 90 percent of the nation’s menhaden. The perniciousness of menhaden removals has been widely enough recognized that 13 of the 15 Atlantic states have banned Omega Protein’s boats from their waters. But the company’s toehold in North Carolina and Virginia (where it has its largest processing plant), and its continued right to fish in federal waters, means a half-billion menhaden are still taken from the ecosystem every year."

Paul Greenberg is the author of the forthcoming “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.”