A group of lobster fishermen has sued fishing regulators in federal court, claiming that new electronic monitoring requirements designed to protect rare whales are unconstitutional. The new rules went ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced the successful prosecution and conviction of a Santa Barbara commercial lobster fisherman on a multitude of commercial lobster ...

Commercial fishermen in Maine had a strong year in 2023. The value of the state's fisheries increased by more than $25 million over 2022, for a total of $611.3 million at the dock, according to ...

A judge has turned down a request from a commercial fishing group to order a Nova Scotia First Nation to pay roughly $334,000 ...

Scientists and officials in New England hope to collect better data about a vanishing whale species, improve fishing gear to avoid harming the animals, and make other changes as Massachusetts and ...

In this July 27, 2018, file photo, a sternman on a lobster fishing boat photographs the sunrise on the way out of Portland Harbor off South Portland, Maine. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty President Donald ...

STONINGTON, Maine — Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine's chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state's lifeblood industry mount. Trade imbalances with Canada, ...

FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, a sternman on a lobster fishing boat photographs the sunrise on the way out of Portland Harbor off South Portland, Maine ...