Gulf of Maine

NOAA believes New England's cod stocks are overfished.

A proposal from the regulating agency would set a 205,000-pound total allowable catch for the Northern Gulf of Maine that would be split between two categories of boats.

Federal fishing managers are holding a series of meetings to gather feedback about potential changes to the Atlantic ocean scallop fishery.

Federal fishing regulators are planning a host of changes to the quota limits of several important New England fish, including cod. New England fishermen search for cod in two key fishing areas, Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine. Regulators have enacted a series of cutbacks to the cod quota in those areas in recent years as cod stocks have dwindled...

Environmentalists and commercial fishermen both say they are fearful of proposed changes to the federal rules that govern New England's beleaguered cod fishing industry.  The rules govern an industry that has fed New England for centuries and is now in steep decline...

Researchers with the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth say a new video system will help provide data to better inform management of New England's beleaguered cod population. UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology scientists say their new video system will help assess the species in the Gulf of Maine...

One of the two critical areas where New England fishermen search for cod may be in even worse shape than suspected. Fishing managers already knew stocks of Georges Bank's cod were thin. New data from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center says research boats fishing the broad swath of elevated sea floor off Massachusetts caught less of the fish per trip this past spring than all but one spring sea

A sparse crowd filled the Waypoint Event Center in downtown New Bedford for a public discussion on how to spend nearly $7 million in federal relief aid for local commercial groundfishermen.

A University of New Hampshire-based group is funding three research projects that will focus on spawning groundfish in New England waters. Groundfish include species such as cod and haddock that have high economic value. The three awards from the Northeast Consortium total more than $335,000...

Federal regulators are considering additional restrictions to the Gulf of Maine cod fishing industry. The New England Fishery Management Council is set to vote on the restrictions at a meeting in Newport, Rhode Island, on Wednesday. The council on Tuesday enacted a quota cut that reduces total allowable cod catch for the 2015 fishing year from 1550 to 386 metric tons...