{"id":13092,"date":"2023-07-14T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:47:04","slug":"atlantic-menhaden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atlantic-menhaden\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Menhaden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Atlantic menhaden:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a commercially important <strong>Atlantic Ocean fish,<\/strong> also known as Fatback, Bunker, Pogie.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> They are found in coastal and estuarine <strong>waters from Nova Scotia<\/strong> to northern Florida.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet:<\/strong> They are filter feeders, primarily <strong>consuming phytoplankton<\/strong> and zooplankton in the water column.<\/li>\n<li>The disappearance of most of the menhaden from the bay is contributing to the disappearance of the many species that rely on menhaden<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses of this fish<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are harvested for use <strong>as fertilizers, animal feed, and bait for fisheries<\/strong> including blue crab and lobster.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>a major source of omega-3 fatty acids<\/strong>, so they are also used to develop human and animal supplements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: <\/strong>Least concern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The disappearance of most of the menhaden from the bay is contributing to the disappearance of the many species that rely on menhaden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about the Chesapeake Bay<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the largest inlet in the <strong>Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern United States<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was created by the submergence of the lower courses of the <strong>Susquehanna River<\/strong> and its tributaries,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The southern part of the bay is bordered by <strong>Virginia <\/strong>and its northern part <strong>by Maryland.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Omega-3 fatty acid?<\/h3>\n<p>Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) that are essential for the human body and have several health benefits like Heart Health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/how-a-tiny-fish-that-fuels-an-atlantic-ecosystem-is-at-the-centre-of-industry-debates-8831352\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How a tiny fish that fuels an Atlantic ecosystem is at the centre of industry debates<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic menhaden is a commercially important Atlantic Ocean fish, also known as Fatback, Bunker, Pogie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}