Menhaden are low on the food chain. In fact, it has been said their high levels of protein and oil, their abundance, defenselessness, and dense schooling habit make them virtually designed to be eaten by larger fish in the Chesapeake Bay. But each year hundreds of millions of pounds of these fish (also called bunker, alewife, bogey, and bugfish) are caught by humans. Their uses range from bait to omega-3 capsules to animal feed to cosmetics and more. In this episode, John Page shares the big story behind the little fish on which much of the Bay's economy depends.