The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale.

Maine still needs to remain compliant with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Keliher says the ASMFC could challenge Maine’s noncompliance, and that could eventually result in no lobsters being exported out of Maine.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Lobster Board previously delayed a proposed gauge size increase – which would increase the legal minimum size of a lobster by one-sixteenth of an inch.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishing regulators on Friday scrapped a plan for stricter fishing rules amid concerns about a decline in baby lobsters in the warming waters off New England. The ...

The commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources issued a strong warning for lobstermen, urging anyone with fishing gear off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to remove it immediately.

The tax and fee changes that Gov. Janet Mills put forward last week in her budget only add up to about $150 million in a two-year state spending plan that tops $11.6 billion. But new taxes and fees are always controversial,

The proposed rules would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters in an attempt to save the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

A new regulation on catchable lobster size could significantly reduce lobster hauls this summer and lobstermen are fighting back.

MAINE, USA — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has withdrawn a proposed regulation intended to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes. The decision has left conservationists and Maine’s lobster industry expressing disappointment, though for different reasons.

Maine Marine Patrol and the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for two commercial fishermen who were reported missing after they did not return to port. Chester Barret and his son Aaron Barrett were on board their fishing vessel Sudden Impact.

Dozens of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted in the Gulf of Maine this week, researchers from the New England Aquarium said Thursday. An aerial survey team from the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life spotted the whales on Jan.

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