BATON ROUGE ( Louisiana Illuminator ) — Another tense showdown could be in the works between recreational fishermen and those who make a living on the waters off the Louisiana coast in the menhaden industry.

Members of Louisiana’s Finfish Task Force, an advisory panel for the state Wildlife and Fisheries Commission and other state agencies, met Thursday and unanimously recommended the state keep in place rules that limit how far commercial menhaden fishing vessels are kept from shore.

The recommendation came in response to a request from the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission last month to explore changes to the menhaden buffer zone, a source of high controversy between sport fishers and the commercial fishing industry.

Menhaden, also known as pogie, is a bony, oily fish used primarily

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