Lend your voice to help the ospreys!

14 July 2025

There is a petition and there is now an article. There is a meeting coming up on 7 May. Do not let the voice of a commercial industrial fishing company, Omega, get the last say. The Chesapeake Bay is dying. There are few baby osplets reaching fledge age.

Read the article. Write the journalist. Sign the petition that was in my earlier Monday blog of 14 July.

Menhaden fishers urge ASMFC to maintain quotas in face of NGO criticism _ SeafoodSourceDownload

Write the Governor of Virginia and those Virginia legislators that refuse to fund a study that will look at the area and –not the ocean. Omega’s figures come from the ‘ocean’ not the Bay. There is a big difference!

Virginia lawmakers decline to study menhaden abundance _ SeafoodSourceDownload

Glenn Youngkin. His office is located at Virginia’s Executive Mansion, 1010 E. Main St, Richmond, VA 23219

“The Governor of Virginia’s email address is not publicly available. However, you can contact the Governor’s office through the Governor’s Office website.You can also reach out to the Governor’s Scheduling Office to request a meeting or to have him attend an event. For general inquiries, the Governor’s Fellows Program email is GovFellows@governor.virginia.gov“

Published by maryannsteggles

I went to the UK as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1990 and received my PhD from the University of Leicester in 1993. After three decades of university teaching, I retired to devote my time to the study of raptor behaviour. I am particularly interested in Ospreys and am working on a long term project on third hatch survival and siblicide in these raptors. My blog is a result of a fascination with my local wildlife and the desire to encourage others to love and care for birds! I live on the Canadian Prairies and prior to the pandemic travelled a lot. I am questioning the use of aviation fuel at the moment as we all strive to help our planet. My early research was in politics and art including British public statues exported to Southeast Asia and Vietnam Resistors that contributed much to Canadian ceramics. Books and articles were published on those subjects over a period of 3 decades. Now I am working on books for children so they can learn about the challenges our raptors face.

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