U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered ...

A landmark Louisiana-funded study confirms what decades of fisheries science have long suggested: the Gulf menhaden fishery ...

The approximately 8-foot dolphin was believed to have swam into a shallow lagoon during last week’s heavy rainstorms, ...

Since marine mammals were federally protected, the only course of action for federal and state officials was to find a ...

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

Federal waters, spanning from nine to 200 nautical miles offshore, will open simultaneously with state waters.

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

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. Many US ice cream producers to phase out artificial food dyes by 2028 ...

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...