The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Lobster Board previously delayed a proposed gauge size increase – which would increase the legal minimum size of a lobster by one-sixteenth of an inch.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of whale, officials said Wednesday. The move in the waning days of the Biden ...

Maine has a fleeting chance to get back in the race for offshore wind energy in 2025, despite President Trump’s antipathy.

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The work began in the midst of a deep recession marked by soaring petroleum prices, in a state with the greatest dependence on heating oil. Baldacci and other advocates saw ocean energy as a tool to free Maine from its imported petroleum addiction.

Experts say up to 90 individual whales have been identified off the coast of York, which is around a quarter of the total population of these whales.

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Washington became the last state on the U.S. West Coast to reject salmon aquaculture over environmental concerns. A new lawsuit now takes aim at operations on the country’s East Coast — the only commercial netpen salmon farms left in the country.

For the first time in over a decade, Maine fishermen will return to the water in pursuit of northern shrimp, marking a cautious revival of a long-cherished winter fishery.

Applicants were chosen after a board reviewed experience, the desired region to fish in, and if the applicant’s boat has advanced electronics to help collect data.

The U.S. government has signed a legal agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), and the Animal Welfare Institute demanding regulators block imports from foreign fisheries that are not adequately protecting marine mammals.