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NOAA to test electronic monitoring in herring fishery

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) —Federal fishing regulators are evaluating how to use electronic monitoring to help manage one of the largest fisheries on the East Coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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Officials ask fishing vessels to slow down for right whales

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — Federal officials are asking large commercial fishing vessels to slow down after nearly two-dozen North Atlantic right whales were spotted in the waters off Nantucket. The

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Officials: Whales, after deadly year, could become extinct

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Officials with the federal government say it’s time to consider the possibility that endangered right whales could become extinct unless new steps are taken to protect

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Rescuers save entangled whale off of Cape Cod

PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts (AP) ― A Massachusetts marine science center says it has disentangled a humpback whale off of Cape Cod. The Center for Coastal Studies says its Marine Animal Entanglement