Fishing

A federal judge has sentenced two brothers of the Gosman family’s wholesale fish business to two years probation and almost $250,000 each in restitution for their roles in an illegal fishing scheme.

Sherry Pocknett finds joy in educating others about Indigenous food and how to care for the Earth. She won a James Beard Award this month for best chef in the Northeast.

The opening of a photo exhibit at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut shows the lives of one of the last commercial trap fishing families in southern New England.

The Town of Brookhaven wants to double the size of a two-acre shellfish management area in Bellport Bay, and pause fishing there while young shellfish grow to maturity. But local baymen oppose.

A law signed by Governor Kathy Hochul last week gives the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation until 2024 to come up with a new set of rules for the commercial harvest of all types of crabs. They can impose new size, catch and possession limits and restrict seasonal harvests.

Hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps make up a “ghost fishery” that continues to trap and kill marine life to this day.

Department of Environmental Conservation biologist and self-proclaimed “fish nerd” Jim Everardt teaches his ice fishing class.

Fisheries across the East Coast are feeling the effects of shifts in fish distribution, abundance, and productivity.

President Biden announced that he will restore protections to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a nearly 5,000-square-mile…

Stony Brook University scientists have found that wastewater runoff from this summer’s storms has flooded Long Island’s waterways with nitrogen pollution.…