Fishing industry regulators have decided to scrap stricter new lobster fishing standards off New England in the wake of ...

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 ...

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

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

BOWDOINHAM (WGME) - A popular Maine ... fishing shack for decades. And for the last two years, the business has been rough, with barely enough ice to get out on the water. He's hoping this season ...

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

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.

PORTLAND, Maine — Commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations during President ... had ruled against a federal law banning lobster fishing in a 200-nautical-mile ...