No clam fishing will be allowed in part of Hempstead Bay because of state concerns about water quality.

Bangladesh is creating two dolphin preserves, in a country where officials say wildlife conservation will have to be balanced with the demands of a growing human population.

Fishermen and federal officials are grappling with bleak prospects in the cod industry.

Fishermen from Cape Cod, Mass., to northern Maine would have to reduce the amount of cod they catch under an emergency proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council.

The state fisheries commissioner announced that Maine’s lobstermen last year harvested more than 100 million pounds of lobster, the biggest catch ever.

Rising human consumption of marine mammals in tropical regions poses a threat to animals like the dugong, which is similar to a manatee, and the Atlantic humpback dolphin, researchers write.

The fate of the jack mackerel in the southern Pacific may foretell the progressive collapse of fish stocks in all oceans.

Environmentalists hail a ban on fishing in 350 square miles of state waters as a boon to fish populations and ecosystems. But fishermen are smarting over steep economic losses.

A previous agreement was dropped last month by the European Parliament over concerns of overfishing and other issues.

Even when suspected illegal fishermen are caught, penalties can be elusive, as two recent cases in Sierra Leone and Costa Rica show.