Lobster fishermen should be working with the Government to continue the fight against Bermuda’s invasive lionfish population. This is the view of Kevin Winter, a veteran hook-and-line fisherman who is ...

And what’s true of National Lobster Day and small, family, lobster fishers is true of the North Atlantic right whale (NARW) as well. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), an office in the ...

Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

In a region known for its lobster, a new species is showing up with more frequency in Maine. Blue crabs, the prize centerpiece of a summertime meal in the Chesapeake Bay, are expanding their range ...

Twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community and Tidy Seas worked together on April 20 to remove more than 50 lobster traps that had washed ...

Abandoned “ghost traps” scattered in South Florida’s coastal waters keep doing their lethal work, sometimes for years, ensnaring and often killing lobsters, stone crabs and other marine life. Crews of ...