The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma returned to its homeport of Kittery, Maine on Tuesday after a 58-day fisheries patrol in the Northern Atlantic.
Over an eight-week patrol, the Tahoma and its crew conducted 28 at-sea law enforcement boardings, inspecting commercial fishing vessels for gear, catch limits, and safety equipment...
A non-profit environmental law firm last week asked the federal government to place unprecedented limits upon Atlantic cod fishing in the Northeast, saying that the stocks have "commercially collapsed due to persistent mismanagement."
The Conservation Law Foundation took sharp aim at the 18-member New England Fisheries Management Council, saying the fisheries managers have failed to prot