date:Sep 25, 2019
ic and Gulf coasts clean. A menhaden filters four to six gallons of water of algae in a minute, which prevents oxygen-depleting algal blooms that lead to underwater dead zones. If you calculate the filtering capacity of the half-billion menhaden that are turned into fish oil every year, the picture begins to look dismal.
But thats not to say that sustainable omega-3 supplements are not available. Bruce Franklin, author of The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America, notes that ther