SeacoastOnline: Dennis Robillard has been fishing for 25 years, offshore and inshore, draggers and gillnetters, and for most of that time he has been the captain of his own boat. But enough is enough, he says. It was the...

Bangor Daily News: It has been more than 3 years since Trescott fisherman Joseph Jones, then 29, went down with his fishing vessel The Bottom Basher in a treacherous area of Cobscook Bay, but neither his body nor his...

Greenwich Time: Like the dwindling Long Island Sound lobster population, the fishermen who make a living off their bounty are becoming a thing of the past. While many lobstermen have given up the longtime seafaring tradition, a handful, like...

The Cape Cod Times reports that a commercial fisherman was seriously injured on Friday night, August 31, at Macmillan Pier after his head became caught between the pier and the boat he was attempting to tie off. The man...

Coast Guard rescue crews medically evacuated a 25-year-old male from the fishing vessel Integrity, an 88’ fishing vessel, approximately 50 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard, at 2:23 p.m. on Tuesday, August 14. Watchstaders at the Sector Southeastern New England...

The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 46-year-old man from a New Bedford, Massachusetts, fishing vessel 98 miles east of Cape Cod this morning. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England Command Center received a call at 3:00...

Well-known fishing expert, writer and editor Tim Coleman was found dead yesterday morning (May 3) at 9:47 a.m. on the “sand trail” in the Weekapaug section of Westerly, Rhode Island. He was 65. Cause of death has not yet...

CapeCodOnline: The health of the ancient Atlantic sturgeon has emerged as the latest threat to the future of New England’s fishing industry. On Wednesday , regional fishery managers considered the implications of protecting sturgeon off New England, 2...

East Hampton Star: Nat Miller stood in the basement workroom of his house in Springs last week mending a section of net soon to be part of the labyrinth of mesh that corrals fish into the parlor section of...

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue crew medically evacuated an ill crewman from the 84-ft fishing vessel Polaris, 12-miles east of Nantucket, Thursday. Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England watchstanders received a report from the captain of vessel at approximately...