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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) – Six people were rescued from a fishing boat several miles off New Bedford Sunday. According to the Coast Guard, the crew of the ‘Captain Jeff’ broadcast a distress call at ...

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 ...

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

Earlier this year, a Thomaston startup that developed a new type of scallop farming grow cage scooped up $25,000 in cash prizes at a pitch competition held by Dirigo Labs in Waterville. Seascale, ...