PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — 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 ...

Both of these cases relate to interpretations by the NMFS of the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), first passed in 1976 to “respond to the threat of overfishing and to ...

A comparison of the fast-growing fish-eating Baltic herring (Slåttersill in Swedish) and slow-growing plankton-eating spring- and autumn-spawning Baltic herring. Photo: Leif Andersson. Atlantic and ...

Background. The facts of Relentless are quite similar to Loper Bright, so I won’t linger on them. Let’s just say that Atlantic herring are getting their day in Court. Both relate to interpretations by ...

Pogies, or Atlantic menhaden, are a form of herring. They are filter feeders that eat phytoplankton and zooplankton, and are ...

At a glance, the case before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday was about a federal rule requiring Atlantic herring fishermen to pay to have observers onboard. But the goal of the fishermen and their ...

WASHINGTON — Business and conservative interest groups that want to limit the power of federal regulators think they have a winner in the Atlantic herring and the boats that sweep the modest fish into ...

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Atlantic herring populations inhabit environments ranging in salinity from fully marine to nearly freshwater, but their relative reproductive success in these respective environments remains unclear.

There was a time when the Housatonic River and all the state’s rivers that flow into the Long Island Sound teemed with migratory fish, including salmon, shad, striped bass, sturgeon, and river herring ...

There was a time when the Connecticut River and all the state’s rivers that flow into the Long Island Sound teemed with migratory fish, including salmon, shad, striped bass, sturgeon, and river ...