Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lobsters can’t hide from 104-year-old Virginia Oliver — Maine’s famous “Lobster Lady.” She’s been trapping the crustaceans for ...

Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

“We are delighted to be working alongside current and former members of the lobster fishery to accomplish this important work,” said Sarah Crosby, director of conservation and policy at the aquarium. ...

Twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community and Tidy Seas worked together on April 20 to remove more than 50 lobster traps that had washed ...

WALTHAM - Lobsters are a way of life in New England, but marine conservationists say the delicacy comes at a cost. Lobster trap lines entangle, injure and even kill North Atlantic Right Whales. Cormac ...

Twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara and Tidy Seas removed more than 50 lobster traps from the coastline, along with all the ...

The rope became taut, putting a drag on the fishing boat in Long Island Sound north of Oyster Bay Harbor. Scott Curatolo-Wagemann hoped that on that July day, he had a catch that was more than a year ...

Hundreds of abandoned and derelict lobster traps that continue to catch and kill marine life in Long Island Sound off Oyster Bay are being removed by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County ...

Patrick Flanary: For years, right whale advocates and engineers have been trying to develop new lobster fishing gear designed to prevent whales from entanglements. But most local lobstermen say ...

BRIDGEPORT - Wearing mud-stained orange overalls, waterproof gloves and a determined look, Corey Matias tugs rhythmically at a long line as his boat idles about 6 miles off the coast in Long Island ...

As is always the case in winter, North Shore fisherman Scott D’Amico had dozens of lobster traps lying around come November. But as also has become tradition for him, the 35-year-old decided to put ...