In the federal lawsuit, “Maine Lobstermen’s Association v National Marine Fisheries Service,” the plaintiffs assert that the fisheries service’s “biological opinion,” the basis for the ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service, which fashioned the regulatory plan after more than three years of study and public comment, says it will arrest a serious decline in the numbers of large ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The National Marine Fisheries Service has accepted a petition filed by a trio of environmental groups seeking to list Oregon’s Chinook salmon populations as threatened or ...

A federal judge found in favor of conservation groups July 8, in a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service and other agencies alleging they’ve failed to protect North Atlantic ...

Last week a federal judge ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service can no longer continue to issue permits for the incidental take of humpback whales when they get tangled in sablefish pot ...

Then, in 1997, in acknowledgment of the “precarious state” of Atlantic shark populations, the National Marine Fisheries Service banned fishing for great white sharks.

A group representing farmers in Eastern Washington and Oregon sued the National Marine Fisheries Service yesterday, saying the agency is illegally listing Columbia River and upper Willamette River ...

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