The commission voted Tuesday to repeal key elements of a proposed increase to minimum allowable catch sizes for Gulf of Maine ...

Conservation groups are praising a recent decision to reinstate protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales in a ...

The proposed gauge size increase would have changed the minimum harvest size of lobster from 3.25 inches to 3.3125 inches, or ...

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

As dozens of North Atlantic right whales continue to group near Jeffreys Ledge, marine officials are urging lobster fishermen to remove nearby fishing gear and said they will not be enforcing state ...

A new regulation on catchable lobster size could significantly ... their policy board on a plan that allows Maine to stay in compliance with the regulations. He said that the plan would require ...

SEABROOK — New Hampshire has joined Maine in rejecting new regulations that would ... new change would also mean the end of fishing for the "chicken lobster" class, which refers to those that ...

Federal officials confirmed the first case of lobster fishing gear ... external regulations. If a whale becomes entangled in rope, that incident could be linked to the Maine fishing industry ...

Meant as a sustainability measure, the new regulations would increase ... part of efforts to make sure fishing in the Gulf of Maine is sustainable and that lobster populations aren’t depleted.