Marine biologist Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries says the increase ... a lot of the sightings along the East Coast of the United States have to do with more people ...

Regulations for Virginia’s coastal, migratory striped bass stock are managed by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission in ...

Naturally occurring meadows of eelgrass—the most common type of seagrass found along the East Coast of the United States ... Fisheries, a federal agency charged with managing and protecting ...

Highly protected MPAs, including the United States’ marine national ... Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument added some representation on the East Coast, but this area accounts for ...

President Obama declared the first fully protected area in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, designating 4,913 square miles off the New England coastline as a new marine national monument.

Federal wildlife officials raised a formal alarm on Thursday over the deaths of bottlenose dolphins off the east coast ... the National Academy of Sciences; National Marine Fisheries Service ...

Last week a federal judge ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service can no longer continue ... tangled in sablefish pot gear off the West coast. The lawsuit was filed by the nonprofit ...

On September 19, 2016, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS ... and Hawaii with populations in various states of decline. A few individual birds have been identified on the islands of ...