Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law credited with saving rare whales - One of the US.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation is the subject of an effort for cutbacks ...

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

Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972 to protect whales, seals, polar bears and other sea animals. The ...

MAJOR concern” over the decline of two important shellfisheries has been laid bare in a new report about Jersey’s marine environment and fishing economy. The continued drop in the annual landed weight ...