New England Fisheries Management Council

Phil Paleologos looks at the latest attempt to crush the commercial fishing industry with at-sea monitors.

Commercial fishermen say Amendment 23 could put smaller fleets and vessel owners out of business.

Quinn discusses fishing issues and his duties at the Law School.

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

Federal fishery regulators will consider habitat protections to key fishing grounds during a meeting in Rhode Island. The New England Fishery Management Council is meeting in Newport, Rhode Island, from Tuesday through Thursday. The board is continuing a discussion of habitat protections that it began during its April meeting...

Scientists are urging federal regulators to go further to protect fish habitat in New England waters as the regulators finalize a long-anticipated management plan. The New England Fishery Management Council has been working on a habitat management plan for several years and is considering a host of options...

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

Fishing regulators have voted to expand closed areas in the Northeast Atlantic, after the areas showed an abundance of small, juvenile scallops.

The top regulators of New England's flagging fishing industry are asking fishermen not to take out their frustrations at the onboard observers who monitor what they catch and what they throw back. The request came in an open letter to fishing permit holders Thursday, a little over two weeks into a fishing year that saw the fleet take painful cuts in catch limits...

New England's fishing regulators have approved deep cuts in catch limits for cod in two key fishing grounds in the North Atlantic.  The Regional Fisheries Management Council approved the cuts at the end of a day long meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...