PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An international organization has given its seal of approval to the Maine lobster fishery designating it as sustainable, Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced Sunday. The ...

Whether fueled by fear of impending right whale protections or concerns over reports of dwindling numbers of young lobsters, the industry churn that once sent fishermen racing offshore has begun to ...

Leaders in the lobster industry want the general public to know that the fishery is not only a critical piece of state and local economies, but also a meaningful culture for anyone who thinks about ...

Before the first rays of sunlight hit the water, Maine’s lobstermen are already out on the cool Atlantic Ocean doing a job they love. They are the individuals who are keeping the Maine Lobster fishery ...

Oct. 4—The Gulf of Maine lobster fishery has had a key sustainability label reinstated a year after it was suspended following the publication of a controversial set of new rules designed to protect ...

The lobster industry in the Northeast may have to change how it operates, based on a new federal rule expected by the end of summer. The potential changes are meant to protect the endangered North ...

Far left activists are exploiting the recent death of an endangered whale to imperil the future of Maine’s iconic lobster fishery. An endangered right whale recently washed ashore on Martha’s Vineyard ...

State officials want to know whether the Maine lobstering rope recently found tangled around a dead North Atlantic right whale actually came from Maine waters — or from those belonging to the federal ...