Atlantic herring fishermen failed to overturn a National Marine Fisheries Service rule requiring vessels to pay onboard compliance monitors’ costs in a case that joined Loper Bright v. Raimondo in ...

That definition was upheld 6-3 by the Supreme Court in the 1995 case Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Greater Oregon, ruling that it “naturally encompasses habitat modification that ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced it is designating critical habitats for five threatened coral species living ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service will delay a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of Mexico by two years, according ...

The Trump administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service will delay until summer 2027 a final rule for protections of the ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

The ruling is a loss for fishermen who sought federal management of all Cook Inlet commercial salmon harvests because they ...

President Donald Trump’s order to re-open distant, protected Pacific waters to U.S. fishing fleets followed years of dire warnings by the region’s commercial seafood interests. Without that access, ...

According to a petition released July 11 in the Federal Register, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) seeks to ...

“Piling lawlessness on top of lawlessness, the National Marine Fisheries Service chose to carry out President Trump’s illegal proclamation by issuing its own illegal directive, with no public ...

The proposal published by NMFS under the Biden administration would’ve established a discard reduction season for the South ...

Programs already cut include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) weather forecasting, Alaska’s fisheries science centers, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.