A group of lobster fishermen has sued fishing regulators in federal court, claiming that new electronic monitoring requirements designed to protect rare whales are unconstitutional. The new rules went ...

The Long Island Sound lobster industry was decimated in 1999, but CT's last few commercial lobstermen keep the tradition ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced the successful prosecution and conviction of a Santa Barbara commercial lobster fisherman on a multitude of commercial lobster ...

Commercial fishermen in Maine had a strong year in 2023. The value of the state's fisheries increased by more than $25 million over 2022, for a total of $611.3 million at the dock, according to ...

WSHU's Ebong Udoma and CT Mirror's Dana Edwards discussed his article about CT's formerly booming lobster industry and why it ...

Editor's note: USA TODAY, with support from the Pulitzer Center, traveled to Alaska, Southern California, Florida and Maine to document climate change's effects on oceans and the people who fish in ...

A lobsterman was allegedly found illegally trap fishing on the Shark River Reef in August, according to the New Jersey Conservation Officer's Association. Lobster fishermen are not allowed to place ...

San Diego's spiny lobster fishermen are facing one of their toughest seasons in years as wholesale prices have crashed to near-record lows.

In this July 27, 2018, file photo, a sternman on a lobster fishing boat photographs the sunrise on the way out of Portland Harbor off South Portland, Maine. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty President Donald ...

Scientists and officials in New England hope to collect better data about a vanishing whale species, improve fishing gear to avoid harming the animals, and make other changes as Massachusetts and ...

FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, a sternman on a lobster fishing boat photographs the sunrise on the way out of Portland Harbor off South Portland, Maine ...