A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more ...

A dangerous situation has surfaced at a Jersey Shore destination, with large holes opening up on part of the beach in the shadow of a beloved lighthouse. First responders are sounding the alarm ...

Kin of a beloved former NYPD sergeant who died Sunday while surfing with pals in the icy waters off Long Island say they are ... surf and had to be pulled to shore, police and relatives said.

We have increased shore patrols, increased the number of (police) water vessels and adopted modern technologies such as Vessel Monitoring Systems to identify, in real time, illegal fishing by ...

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Ground cages were mainly placed in shallow water areas along the shore. Fishing was conducted daily for approximately 16 h from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. Fish were identified when collected and released ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After allegedly leading police on a wild chase last summer across the borough’s South Shore, a New Jersey man is being sought by authorities for failing to appear in ...

Over the weekend, an important part of the Spotted Island fishing community was washed away. A hundred-foot-long structure with 10 stages was swept away during a storm, explained Shawn Holwell.

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...