NOAA Must Take Emergency Measures to Save Right Whales
The Trump-era proposed rulemaking intended to reduce entanglements of North Atlantic right whales in fishing gear is a death sentence for the species. The Biden...
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California Leads the Nation on Ropeless Gear Regulations
New regulations published by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will reduce entanglements of endangered humpback whales, blue whales, and Pacific le...
Right Whales Suffer Precipitous Decline
356. The number of North Atlantic right whales estimated to remain on earth at the end of 2019. This is a precipitous decline from an estimated population size ...
Maine Lobster Fishery Loses Sustainable Seafood Label
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has suspended its certification of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery after determining that the fishery was potentially jeo...
Right Whales Uplisted to Critically Endangered by IUCN
North Atlantic right whales have been uplisted from Endangered to Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), sounding t...
California Takes the Lead in Regulating Ropeless Fishing
NRDC has weighed in on new regulations proposed by the state of California to protect endangered wildlife from becoming entangled in commercial Dungeness crab...