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Federal officials say the fading North Atlantic right whale will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act and requires a series of protective steps to stave off extinction.
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A second major seafood watchdog group has pulled its support for Maine's lobster fishery over concerns that it's harming endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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A severely entangled right whale was spotted 15 miles south of Nantucket on Wednesday by researchers from the New England Aquarium. The 17-year-old whale known as Snow Cone was carrying fishing gear from a new entanglement, along with gear from an earlier incident.
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A federal judge ruled Friday that federal fisheries regulators are violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to adequately protect North Atlantic right whales from potentially deadly entanglements in fishing gear, including the rope used by Maine's lobster fleet.
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The federal government says the number of whales entangled in fishing gear has declined recently, but the entanglements remain a critical threat to rare species.
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On this episode of Audacious with Chion Wolf, meet audacious elders! Hear stories about what’s it like to; go viral for wearing a wedding dress at 94, set a record for running at 105 years old, ride in a WW2 biplane at 97, and more.
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On a clear morning in early June, cotton sacks filled with shucked scallops hit the scale at Gambardella’s dockside warehouse in Stonington, Connecticut.…
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The tension between protecting the environment and people’s livelihoods is on full display in the new documentary “Entangled,” a film that focuses on one…
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In New England, offshore wind developers and the fishing industry continue to grapple with questions over potential impacts on the region’s valuable…