Atlantic herring fishermen failed to overturn a National Marine Fisheries Service rule requiring vessels to pay onboard ...

A team of scientists has documented for the first time how a pod of orcas in Norway work in pairs to enjoy a feast of herring ...

Atlantic herring is loaded onto a lobster fishing boat on the shores of the Gulf of Maine on July 1, 2019, in Deer Isle, Maine. Joe Raedle/Getty Images ...

A group of herring fishermen may put a hook in the Biden administration's power A years-long battle between four fishing companies and the federal government arrives at the Supreme Court this week.

Several commercial fishermen in New England have been sentenced in a fraud scheme that centered on a critically important species of bait fish and that prosecutors described as complex and wide ...

Atlantic herring numbers are down, way down. According to NOAA Fisheries, the stock is overfished. Overall commercial landings totaled 9.3 million pounds in 2022. By comparison, in 2013 ...

Federal regulators have proposed expanding catch limits for Atlantic herring, reversing course on earlier restrictions set to bring the stressed fishery back from the edge of collapse.

The Supreme Court could overrule a 40-year-old decision that some warn would curtain the ability of federal agencies to regulate areas like the environment, health care and the workplace.

Atlantic herring and river herring are closely related and resemble each other. The massive nets, often pulled by two huge ships, scoop up river herring along with the Atlantic herring.

The fishermen were sentenced for “knowingly subverting commercial fishing reporting requirements” in a scheme involving Atlantic herring, prosecutors said in a statement.