The Latest Breaking News from North Atlantic

As many as 70 of the endangered whales were seen feeding off the Massachusetts coast on Friday. Fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales exist in the world.

Standing on a dock in his hometown of Gloucester, Massachusetts, lobsterman Arthur Sawyer looked out at the peaceful, calm waters off of Cape Ann.

The unexpected deaths are hitting humpbacks and North Atlantic right whales on the East Coast and gray whales on the West Coast — populations that were already under watch.

A struggling right whale is “heavily entangled” in fishing gear off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and likely won’t survive, according to NOAA Fisheries biologists.

Maine lobster fishermen received a Christmas gift from Congress at the end of 2022: A six-year delay on new federal regulations designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The $1.7 trillion spending bill just signed into law contains a 6-year delay on new federal fishing regulations that would have kept lobster fishermen off the water in some areas for months at a time.

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The deadly bomb cyclone that has sent temperatures plunging in the US is also causing the UK to experience wet and windy weather, the Met Office said.On Wednesday, the forecaster issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain from 3am on Friday for 15 hours for much of Scotland, including…

Federal officials say the fading North Atlantic right whale will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act and requires a series of protective steps to stave off extinction