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Right Whales and Cashes Ledge: How to Make a Good Thing Last
This post was originally featured on CLF Scoop. In late January, North Atlantic right whales scored a big win when the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expanded the critical habitat...
View ArticleInnies-And-Outies: New Science Reveals Closed Area Effectiveness for Atlantic...
With NOAA poised to review the New England Fishery Management Council’s Omnibus Habitat Amendment – and in the face of some fishermen who claim that marine protected areas within the cold waters off...
View ArticleAnother Hard Year Ahead for Cod and Cod Fishermen
May 1 marked the start of the 2016 fishing year, which means new regulations for New England’s fisheries and fishermen. Just days before the season opening, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
View ArticleHow Science and a Bit of Luck Brought Atlantic Sea Scallops Back from the Brink
This blog is a cross-post from Oceana. The author is Oceana staff member Allison Guy. In 1995, one year after three areas of the seafloor off Cape Cod were closed to fishing, researchers piloting...
View ArticleNorthern Cod Rebound: A promising story for our most depleted stocks
Many know the adage: “There were once so many cod in New England that you could walk across their backs.” But New England is not the only region where this saying applies. Our neighbors to the north,...
View ArticleFeds Offer More Excuses for Reckless Management of Cod
Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published the final rule for Framework Adjustment 58 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan, announcing annual catch limits (ACLs)...
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