WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Marine Fisheries Service will create "consequence" closure areas to reduce the number of harbor porpoises incidentally caught by commercial gillnet fishing vessels. The ...

Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

YES. GOOD ONE. ED. YEAH. YOU REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WE SAW A PORPOISE OUT IN THE DEEPER PART OF THE HARBOR, OVER THERE BY THE GAS TANK. THIS TIME ONE CAME INTO THIS. THIS SMALL INLET NEAR TINIAN ...

Napans strolling along the river Sunday may have caught a rare sight — a harbor porpoise surfacing in the Oxbow. By Monday, the animal was still cruising the same stretch of water.[ related_articles ...

New research from the University of Aberdeen has shed light on what effect decommissioning could have on local marine mammals. Gravity-based structures may offer a porpoise and dolphin-friendly ...

Like seasoned New Yorkers, the porpoises have adapted to the sounds troubling their universe. Also, investigators find an arsenal at the Gilgo Beach suspect’s home. By James Barron Good morning. It’s ...

Harbor porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, live life in the fast lane. Compared to other toothed whales, they mature earlier, reproduce more frequently, and have a shorter lifespan. They also require a lot ...

Harbor porpoises are a good example of caution about statistics, otherwise known as jumping to conclusions. Sometimes researchers have to keep plugging away at solving a puzzle, one piece at a time.

In addition to the storm surge that swamped parts of downtown Boston, Wednesday’s nor’easter blew ashore a marine mammal in Dorchester and many Hub residents are unaware that such creatures are ...

@universalhub @NEAQ dolphin in the channel this AM pic.twitter.com/F7RplHl54Z — Jen richard (@Jenboston) March 21, 2017 March 21 (UPI) --Experts said a video ...

When James Judkins began pulling up his fishing nets out near Point Barrow this month, the weight of the catch pulled back at him. “Man, this is a really big fish,” Judkins thought. Then, he glimpsed ...