By Bobby Bascomb Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has withdrawn its proposal to expand boat speed limits to protect North Atlantic right whales after ... the Jamaica party fishing boat at ...

NMFS officials say the original proposal in August 2022 drew some 90,000 public comments, and the agency does “not have ...

As dozens of North Atlantic right whales continue to group near Jeffreys Ledge, marine officials are urging lobster fishermen to remove nearby fishing gear and said they will not be enforcing state ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

The rule would have limited boats as small as 35 feet to 10 knots when North Atlantic right whales were migrating through ...

Krill are also sought after by humans, who scoop them up using massive fishing boats, potentially putting whales in danger, scientists warn. The fishing boats and whales are “going after the ...

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...

Of those, nearly 13,500 boats were 26 feet or bigger ... vessel strikes, fishing gear entanglements and the whales' slow reproductive levels remain major threats to the species' survival.