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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A group of New England fishermen is suing the federal government over a shift in the cost of at-sea fishing monitors. Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say money for monitors in New England fisheries such as cod and haddock will be gone by early 2016...

NOAA is announcing a reprieve of sorts for New England's ground fishermen. The agency has found another $200,000 that will enable the government to pay for at-sea observers on vessels for the next month or two. The money comes from one of three companies hired by the government to provide observers on fishing boats...

There's some good news for New Bedford in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual report on Fisheries of The United States. The nation's fishermen landed more than $5 billion worth of fish in 2014, and the Port of New Bedford again is the top port in the United States, when it comes to the dollar-value of fish landed...

A Mass. state lawmaker has some issues with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Rep. Robert Koczera says with New Bedford being a major fishing port, NOAA should be reaching out to fishermen and institutions like the UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science to get updated information on fishery stocks in the North Atlantic...

Communication is key. That was the message that resonated from a meeting between NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center and representatives of the fishing industry at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's SMAST Wednesday morning.

The last three months have been the warmest winter in recorded history, but don't tell that to New England. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says December, January and February were the warmest winter period in world history, beating the previous mark set last year...

The New England Fisheries Management Council is requesting input on a plan for the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office.

More bleak news for the groundfishing industry. NOAA Fisheries Northeast Regional Administrator John Bullard announced Monday the Atlantic cod stock is in a free-fall, and more proposed cuts to the quota are on the table. Bullard says stock abundance is just 3-4% of levels deemed sustainable...

NOAA has released its annual report on Fish-Landings In The U-S, and the Port of New Bedford is again the top fishing port dollar-wise in the nation. It's the 14th year in a row that New Bedford has been number one. Landings in New Bedford generated $379 million, with most of the money coming from the sale of scallops...

State and federal environmental officials have announced the second round of remediation projects in the wake of an oil spill in Buzzards Bay in 2003 that damaged the Massachusetts and Rhode Island shorelines. The nearly $4.3 million plan announced Friday includes the restoration of shorelines resources, including tidal marshes and beaches; aquatic resources, including lobster, shellfish and fin f