California crab fishermen required to use new gear to protect whales

California crab fishermen must adopt "pop-up" gear to prevent whale entanglements, as mandated by the California Department ...

Watermen recovering ‘ghost gear’ in terminal developer’s bay cleanup

Maryland watermen are removing lost crab traps — or “ghost gear” — from the upper Chesapeake Bay to prepare for the Tradepoint Atlantic container ship terminal.
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Ghost gear sweep puts 40 watermen to work on the Chesapeake

Twenty vessels and 40 watermen are combing Baltimore County waters this month as part of a coordinated ghost gear removal ...

Has New York’s ban on eating most fish from the Hudson worked?

For 50 years, the state has advised against eating Hudson River fish due to PCB contamination. Environmentalists say the ...