Christmas trees constructed from lobster traps, fishing buoys, and even wooden trawl tubs, are increasingly becoming ...

Citing threats to the endangered North Atlantic right whale, federal officials are invoking an emergency rule to ban lobster and crab trap and pot fishermen from working in a vast area of ...

FILE - In this May 2, 2016, photo, Bobby Kent pushes a baited lobster pot into the waters of Long Island Sound off Groton, Conn. Only a handful of lobstermen still work the waters due to a dwindling ...

Leatherback turtles are highly vulnerable to getting entangled in lobster pot fishing gear off the coast of Massachusetts. A new study now shows that they can largely survive these entanglements — if ...

PORTLAND, Maine - Lobster fishermen are known for bragging about who has the fastest boat or the biggest pickup truck. Now, some of the top lobster-fishing ports in New England are claiming bragging ...

Cormac Hondros-McCarthy, Lauren Shum, Parth Sagdeo and Ted Zhu celebrate their successful top prize spot at the Make for the Planet Borneo hackathon in Kuching, Malaysia in June 2018. Courtesy of the ...