NOAA Fisheries and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced that they have teamed up with DrivenData and HeroX, in collaboration with Wild Me and NASA, to launch the crowdsourcing ...

The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) has been developed during the last decade in response to perceived and actual deficiencies in previous methods of management. The EAF recognizes that fish are ...

While NOAA Fisheries blamed climate change for the dramatic decline of the crabs, crabbers said they’ve also been victimized by inaccurate data and poor management decisions. Crabbers and ...

Newfoundland’s northern cod was once thought to be an inexhaustible resource. In fact, much of the province’s history and culture continues to be linked with this iconic species. But in the 1990s, the ...

Commercial fishing and recreational vessels are docked in the Homer harbor on Oct. 23, 2025. The commercial fishing industry endured a series of challenges over the year, some of them imposed by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Live blue crab from the North Carolina coast. (ehyman@newsobserver.com) When you think of environmental groups working to protect ...

Portrait of hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini) swimming. Sphyrna lewini is a protected species, listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images) In the azure waters ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The world’s oceans are the ultimate global commons, and as such, profits have been realized privately, but costs are borne by the public, with ...