Fisheries

On the heels of a global pandemic, the overall value earned by harvesters in 2021 jumped by more than $365 million to a new historic value, according to data from Maine Department of Marine Resources.

Plains All American Pipeline settled a $230 million case with fishers and properties in California.

Disaster-level instability in the Atlantic herring industry has prompted the federal government to give $11 million to commercial fishermen and shore-side infrastructure in four states.

From giant land-based salmon tanks to submersible shellfish platforms, experiments in aquaculture are dotting Maine’s coasts

The possibility of allowing leasing in the Atlantic scallop fishery is being explored by the New England Fishery Management Council, which manages wild fisheries on the U.S. East Coast.

As older fishing fleets retire, new technologies help to create a more sustainable solution for an industry historically averse to change. The Blue Revolution, the new book from Nicholas P. Sullivan, tells that story.

People overfished Florida's cobia stock for 45 years, scientists discovered.

Louisiana is known to many as the Sportsman’s Paradise for its excellent fishing and wildlife, but that moniker may be in jeopardy if the menhaden reduction fishing industry continues to wreak havoc on the state’s shoreline and deplete fish populations through unsustainable and irresponsible fishing practices.

Lobsters were the unlikely subject of a lively debate on the Senate floor Thursday, culminating in the chamber voting down a bill that would have granted lobster licenses for recreational scuba divers.

As climate change forces more fish to move north in search of cooler waters, NOAA has created a way for the public to track their movements.

Canadian lobster exports reached a staggering $3.26 billion last year, beating the previous record of $2.59 billion, set in 2019, by more than 25 per cent.

Whale populations are recovering, and whales are on the move early this year. That’s led to five humpback whale entanglements in crab gear, prompting the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to close the commercial Dungeness crab season two months early.

Fish such as cod, anchovy and sardines could decline in the future as climate change forces marine species to find survivable ocean temperatures and disrupts predator-prey relationships, according to a new Rutgers University study. The authors say this could have implications for the fishing industry.

Warming ocean temperatures are causing fish species to shift northwards. Species once common in the mid-Atlantic are becoming fixtures off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Reporters Sofie Rudin and Antonia Ayres-Brown look into what it’ll take to adapt to those changes.

People in the world’s developed nations live in a post-industrial era, working mainly in service or knowledge industries. Manufacturers increasingly rely on sensors, robots, artificial intelligence and machine learning to replace human labor or make it more efficient.

Today, at the Our Ocean Conference (OOC) in Palau, the EU has renewed its pledges towards international Ocean governance. Presenting a list of 44 commitments for the 2020-2022 period for an amount of almost €1 billion, the EU has brought forward its most important commitments ever offered during an Our Ocean Conference, in terms of value.

All commercial Dungeness crab fishing zones off the California coast will close this month after humpback whales became tangled in fishing gear during their migrating season, wildlife officials said.

The endangered North Atlantic right whale's preferred food source is moving north, out of Maine waters. Lobstermen say the change warrants a second look at new fishing restrictions set to take effect May 1.

This season’s quotas of snow crab catch were slashed by nearly 90%, a body blow to the small island government on St. Paul, where the crab are processed — and taxed.

The endangered North Atlantic right whale's preferred food source is moving north, out of Maine waters. Lobstermen say the change warrants a second look at new fishing restrictions set to take effect May 1.

A spring ban on herring and mackerel will force local fishers to source bait from elsewhere, Ron Heighton says.

Fishing has been the lifeblood of Peterhead for 400 years and that’s not about to change any time soon.

Churning with innovation, marine field stations dot New Jersey’s bays and oceans, unearthing solutions to titanic problems, like sustaining our fisheries, restoring marshlands and mitigating the harsh effect of climate change on our waters.

'I believe we're in dire straits, I really do'

Around the world, from Sri Lanka to Argentina to the South China Sea, the ocean has become an expanding front in the armed conflict between nations over illegal fishing and overfishing, practices that deplete a vulnerable food source for billions of people worldwide.