LOWER TOWNSHIP - "Mayday" is the one radio call a fishing boat captain never wants to receive, but when Walt Hill Sr. heard it early Tuesday morning, he knew just what to do. Hill, aboard the 87-foot ...

Mayor Jon Mitchell, in a letter sent to NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Eugenio Piñeiro Soler, called on the agency to ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A disagreement over the right to fish for scallops off New England is pitting small boats against big ones in one of the most lucrative fisheries in the U.S. The federal ...

Some commercial fishermen are facing stricter regulations because of President Trump's cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. From our member station, The Public's Radio, Ben ...

PARIS -- Fishermen from rival French and British fleets banged their boats in ill-tempered skirmishes this week over access to the scallop-rich waters off France's northern coast. French maritime ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said it rescued two crewmembers Friday with life-threatening injuries from a Maine scallop boat. One of the crewmembers has died, and both sustained injuries from a snapped rope.

Virginia's scallop industry took an overworked fishery and turned it into the state's most valuable one. As Virginia's seafood industries built on the Chesapeake Bay struggle, the state's most ...

On September 28, Wester Ross fisherman Bally Philp was alerted by locals about two boats that appeared to be scallop dredging ...