The climate crisis is hurting the New England fishing industry, claims a new report published Monday, with a decline of 16% in fishing jobs in the northeastern U.S. region from 1996 to 2017 and ...

On the fishing-boat piers of New England, nearly everyone knows a fisherman lost at sea. New Bedford, Mass., boat captain Joe Neves remembers when a crew member got knocked overboard. “We heard ...

The number of adult lobsters in New England south of Cape Cod slid to about 10 million in 2013, according to a report issued last year by an interstate regulatory board. It was about 50 million in ...

Preliminary data suggest the valuable species is in dismal shape in the Gulf of Maine and won't rebuild within the time set by federal law.

New England fishermen and federal data reports are telling the same story this year: The catch is way down.Two-thirds of the way through the 2012 fishing year, which ends April 30, fishermen have ...

A fishing boat capsized off of New England, claiming the lives of all four fishermen aboard. The NTSB is now calling for stricter safety inspections after the tragedy.

The law that governs the nation's fisheries was passed 36 years ago to oust foreign boats working in U.S. waters. Today, New England fishermen wonder if it will soon oust them.

Atlantic cod was central to building New England's economy. But today, the fishing industry pulls in historically low levels because of strict limits on the catch.

Hans Brings was fishing in Cape Cod in the middle of the night as a thunder and lightning storm approached. Around 1 a.m., ...

Commercial Fishing Susan Chisholm of Maine Public Radio reports that New England's commercial fishermen are starting their season with drastic new limits on the number of days they can spend at ...

A new study has found that there is another significant threat to New England’s fishing industry other than overfishing: climate change. The report, published this week in the Proceedings of the ...