Corissa Martinez looks out over the Pamlico Sound in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 as Hurricane Sandy churns up the east coast. Nearly four decades of research ended this year because a ...

A menhaden fishing boat overwhelmed by an unexpectedly big catch let loose a massive raft of dead fish off the coast of southwest Louisiana last week, sparking outrage from conservation groups and ...

Federal regulators have withdrawn a proposed rule that would have significantly expanded the number of ships required to slow down as they travel in waters near the shoreline to protect endangered ...

The new fisheries surveillance vessel (FAB) built and delivered by the TAMSEN MARITIM shipyard in Rostock-Gehlsdorf for the State Office for Agriculture, Food Safety and Fisheries of ...

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A state employee has died in an apparent drowning in Carteret County while saving his colleague. Deputies say the Marine Fisheries employee was gathering water sample ...

KITTY HAWK, N.C. — The fishing industry is paramount to the Outer Banks. “How important is fishing to Dare County? Prior to 1980 nothing here in Dare County was even built without a commercial fishing ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate’s effect on California’s coastal waters, a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping ...

Fisheries contribute about 1 percent to Pakistan’s GDP but are a critical source of livelihoods in coastal areas.