31. Menhaden processing factories on Cockrell Creek produced fish oil, meal, and fertilizer from menhaden.32. Menhaden processing factories on Cockrell Creek produced fish oil, meal, and fertilizer from menhaden . 33. Most were menhaden , a 7-inch fish valued for its oil or as pet food. 34. Far more important, the menhaden 's filter feeding limits the spread of devastating algal blooms. 35. "The public is concerned that the industry is making the decisions about menhaden ," 36. Menhaden have been harvested for fertilizer since Colonial times and were caught before that by American Indians.37. "Menhaden " completed six more deployments in the troubled waters of the Far East. 38. Each time they did this, small bits of menhaden would fall from their beaks to the water. 39. Menhaden are brassy-colored, slab-sided herrings that travel in great shoals, grazing plankton.40. Nutrients are abundant and there's tremendous production of high-fat forage fish, particularly menhaden .
