The commercial lobster season officially opened across much of the Canadian maritime provinces Tuesday morning. At dawn, hundreds of lobster boats hit the water from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and ...

A group of lobster fishermen has sued fishing regulators in federal court, claiming that new electronic monitoring requirements designed to protect rare whales are unconstitutional. The new rules went ...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has delayed the mandatory implementation of electronic data logging for some Maritime fishing zones.The move comes after some associations expressed their ...

America's lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales. The lobster industry, based ...

A federal appeals court reinstated a ban on lobster fishing that protects right whales and aids their conservation, according to News Center Maine. Reversing a lower court's decision, the Boston-based ...

Experiments now underway could change lobster fishing — and help the endangered right whale. But the lobster industry has raised objections about the cost. For years, Maine lobstermen touted that ...

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 ...