When his vessel is still far out to sea, the captain uses a mobile phone app to notify the port of his arrival. He specifies what time he’ll get in, and submits catch data that the port managers will ...

Dear EarthTalk: What is being done to enable ocean fish populations to rebound after being so over-fished? Are nations coming together on this in any way? — Deborah Kay, Milford, Conn. There is no ...

ORONO, Maine -- Overfishing of key marine animals such as cod, oysters, sea turtles and other species is the primary cause leading to a variety of problems that have appeared recently in coastal ...

Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the marine snails from the ...

The New Orleans federal appeals court heard argument from a faction of charter boat captains from Gulf Coast states that challenge a rule of the U.S. Department of Commerce requiring constant ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii — Conservation groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today over a new rule allowing the Hawai‘i-based longline fleet to fish beyond limits set by international agreeme ...