The Conservation Law Foundation’s website, Talking Fish, offers 10 reasons why NOAA should reject the plan to open previously closed areas ff New England to groundfishing. Here they are: Why should NOAA reject the plan to expand commercial fishing...

Coast Guard units throughout the Northeast have increased their presence to ensure safety and security of the ports and waterways, after Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon. As a result of the increased patrols, the Coast Guard is able...

Spurred by a general agreement among both biologists and fishermen that once vibrant cod populations are a shadow of what they once were, the New England Fishery Management Council recently imposed severe cuts to cod catch limits in the...

Saving Seafood: Based on recent reports developed by fisheries scientists and peer reviewed by independent experts, there is little good news about the health of cod stocks in the Northeast. The reports, developed during 2 separate stock assessments held...

Gloucester Times: The NOAA Fisheries Science Center has published an analysis of the 2011 Northeast groundfishery—the second year of catch share-trading activity and the last year of optimism in a fishery that has descended into a recognized “disaster.” And...

URI.com: About 50% of the saltmarshes in the Northeast have been destroyed by human development, and many of those that remain have been severely degraded by roads and other crossings, restricting tidal flows and limiting their ability to provide...

CBSNews.com: Hurricane Sandy is blamed for roughly about $62 billion in damage and counting. However, one industry may stand to benefit. There’s not much good you can say about Sandy. But surprisingly, its rising tide of destruction may have...

From ethanol concerns to multicolored lobsters to Hurricane Sandy, it was a busy and often bizarre year for boating and water-related news in the Northeast. Here’s a look at 25 posts that piqued your interest in 2012. 1: Fire...

Phil Colarusso, a diver with the Environmental Protection Agency, writes in the EPA blog about the issue of invasive tunicates known as sea squirts and their increasing impact on the aquatic ecosystem of the Northeast. As a diver for...

Portland Press Herald: The acting U.S. Commerce Secretary on Friday ordered federal regulators to return about $544,000 in unjust fines collected from 14 fishermen or fishing businesses, most of whom worked Northeast waters. Secretary Rebecca Blank also directed the...