Whether fueled by fear of impending right whale protections or concerns over reports of dwindling numbers of young lobsters, the industry churn that once sent fishermen racing offshore has begun to ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishing industry regulators have decided to scrap stricter new lobster fishing standards off New England in the wake of months of protest from lobster fishermen that the rules ...

A federal judge has ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions designed to conserve rare whales will be delayed until 2024 to give the government time to design them. The ruling Thursday by U.S.

Maine lobster fishermen received a Christmas gift from Congress at the end of 2022: a six-year delay on new federal regulations designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine, on Aug. 31, 2021. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP) A federal judge has ruled that new lobster fishing restrictions designed to conserve rare ...

Chuck Pinder's boat, the Sea Gem, readies for a sea voyage. Hundreds of years ago, Spanish Wells located in The Bahamas, was known as an oceanic crossroad for ships traveling between the Western ...

After three decades of fishing for lobsters in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, Rob Martin knows his boat inside and out. "It's only 40 feet. It was big when I first got it and now it seems small," he ...

One of the main threats to the endangered North Atlantic right whale is lobster-fishing rope. A new ropeless technology could save both the whales and the lobster industry. The North Atlantic right ...

FILE - In this March 28, 2018, file photo, a North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. America's lobster fishing industry will face a host of new ...

PORTLAND, Maine — America’s lobster fishing industry will face a host of new harvesting restrictions amid a new push from the federal government to try to save a vanishing species of whale. The new ...