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 ...

Twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community and Tidy Seas worked together on April 20 to remove more than 50 lobster traps that had washed ...

A group of commercial lobster harvesters in Nova Scotia is demanding the courts settle a fight over Indigenous fishing rights ...

Whether fueled by fear of impending right whale protections or concerns over reports of dwindling numbers of young lobsters, the industry churn that once sent fishermen racing offshore has begun to ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- Fishing industry regulators have decided to scrap new stricter lobster-fishing standards off New England in the wake of months of protest from lobster fishermen that the rules were ...

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 ...

Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state’s lifeblood industry mount. Trade imbalances with Canada, tight regulations on ...

Northland’s rock lobster fishery will have a reprieve from fishing to help build stocks of spiny rock lobster, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. “I have decided to close most of the east ...

Though illegal, out-of-season lobster fishing continues off the south coast of Nova Scotia, Canadian fisheries minister Diane Lebouthillier has still not returned calls from Kent Smith, the east coast ...

Northland's rock lobster fishery will have a reprieve from fishing to help build stocks of spiny rock lobster, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane ...