menhaden
men hay duhn
- n shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
- For decades the oil-rig roughnecks and menhaden fishermen who have made their living on this fragile shore have seen drilling and dredging kill off the surrounding marshes and .
- Fishermen also reported sick fish, particularly menhaden, whose schooling habits make them especially vulnerable.
- The menhaden, a fish that can produce 700,000 eggs at the flip of a gill, was long one of the leading population exploders in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.