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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...

Biologists with the New England Aquarium are investigating what may have caused a rarely-seen deep water whale to wash up on a Massachusetts beach. The carcass of the 17-foot female, weighing almost a ton, was found Friday on Jones Beach in Plymouth...

The Coast Guard says it has rescued 113 people from a grounded charter boat off Cape Cod.

It's a prime example of natural selection at work. A species of fish in the New Bedford Harbor has adapted and is now thriving, even though the sediment has been contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for decades. Mark Hahn, a senior scientist in biology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the co-author of a new report on New Bedford's killifish population...