Brooke Hachey of the Sunrise County Economic Council is leading a demonstration of a kind of "on demand," sometimes called "ropeless" lobster fishing gear. In a bid to protect North Atlantic right ...

The threat to a rare whale species from getting tangled in fishing gear has prompted Monterey Bay Aquarium in California to caution against eating a variety of lobster that New England fishermen have ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — The US lobster industry’s catch keeps sliding as fishermen contend with the northward migration of the valuable crustaceans. The industry is based mostly in Maine, where ...

Other states, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, also have lobster fishing industries, but Maine’s is by far the largest, and the size of the Maine harvest gives a firm ...

RCFP is asking a federal court in Maine to allow review of a ruling that expands who’s able to sue over constitutionally ...

It is the second time the owners of the Real Cornish Crab Company have committed such offences, including catching too small shellfish and scrubbing eggs from females, wiping out unborn shellfish and ...

FILE - Max Oliver moves a lobster to the banding table aboard his boat while fishing off Spruce Head, Maine, on Aug. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) 34,796 people played the daily ...