The Chesapeake Bay isn’t just a body of water. It’s Maryland’s beating heart, a place where families bond over striped bass fishing, where small businesses thrive and where generations have built their lives around a healthy and productive marine ecosystem.

But that way of life is now at risk. Not because of a lack of effort by Marylanders, but because of unchecked industrial exploitation by a foreign-controlled company operating just beyond the horizon. Each year, a Canadian-controlled company vacuums up millions of pounds of Atlantic menhaden, tiny forage fish that serve as the foundation of the entire marine food chain.

These menhaden aren’t going to feed American families. They’re being processed into fish meal and fish oil, largely for export. In the process, they’re robbing our s

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