The American lobster is the single most valuable species of fish landed in the United States.

The number of late-stage larvae has been decreasing since about 2007, which strongly correlates with the downward trend in seafloor settlement…

Strung between Antarctica and the Equator, a thin chain of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean lies almost abandoned by commerce. Once valued for whaling or as stopping points on the way to the capes at the tip of Africa and South America, these islands exist mostly in the minds of history buffs

Sea lampreys are a particularly gruesome kind of parasite, latching their circle of teeth into the flesh of other fish and even humans.

The populations of river-run fish started decreasing dramatically in Maine as long ago as the early 1800s.

For many years, the cities of Portland and South Portland have been trying to figure out how to tackle the issue of dredging around the piers of Portland Harbor. The federal government conducts regular maintenance dredges of the federal navigation channel, but...

A $1.8 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation tops off the funding needed to complete a $5.8 million expansion of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education.

The undersea cable project is estimated to cost $2 billion and is expected to be in service by December 2022.

For reasons not fully understood, North Atlantic right whale migration patterns seem to be changing, with fewer being observed in the Gulf of Maine. The right whales migrate from waters off Florida, where they winter, to the waters off Maine...