If you've been waiting for fall to come and break all the heat and humidity of the summer, weather experts have some bad news.
The latest National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) long-range weather predictions do not paint a great picture of fall in New England.
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NOAA released its annual Fisheries of the United States report on Thursday and once again, New Bedford was the highest-grossing fishing port in the country.
The scientists whose work forms the basis of Northeast fisheries regulation have been located in Woods Hole for decades - but a new facility is in the works.
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