But, public interest waned, and World War II closed down North Atlantic sea lanes. Hard times followed. In 1942, the West Indies Trading Company purchased the schooner, where it spent the next four ...

A rare run of bluefin tuna off North Carolina's Outer Banks has pier anglers hooking giants just yards from the beach.

PROVINCETOWN - Endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted off the coast of Cape Cod over the last week. The ...

The mysterious saga of two “out-of-habitat” whales has taken another strange turn, with the pair showing up in a tropical region where the species isn’t known to exist, according to trackers. “In an ...

Thousands of endangered sharks are killed each year in the North Atlantic due ... exposing the culprits at sea now, but we urgently need a strong treaty and tighter fishing limits to protect ...

Researchers and conservationists remind the public to respect the whales’ space. It is illegal to approach a North Atlantic right whale within 500 yards without a federal research permit. Still, from ...

Entanglement in fishing gear is a leading threat to endangered whales ... And in fact, for some species — like North Atlantic right whales — entanglements are not only impeding their recovery, but ...