October 31, 2022 CA Dungeness crab season delayed due to humpback whales off coast Foraging humpback whales in California are causing a delay in the start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in the state. The whales are known to get tangled in crab fishing gear.
October 27, 2022 Man catches record hybrid striped bass in New Jersey: 'Trolling in 20 feet' John Vayda caught a record-breaking hybrid striped bass in the state of New Jersey and it weighed 16 pounds, 10 ounces, according to the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife.
October 27, 2022 Fisherman believe many once-profitable species that declined with climate change may be gone for good Fishing regulators are beginning to believe that some species, which had previously been big money makers, will not be coming back. The decline is partially due to climate change.
October 27, 2022 Two men embroiled in Lake Erie fishing tournament scandal enter pleas to charges Two fishermen wrapped up in a scandal stemming from a tournament on Lake Erie late last month — Jacob Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania — appeared in court on Wednesday over the cheating allegations.
October 26, 2022 Giant 6,000-pound sunfish sets world record as largest bony fish: report A giant southern ocean fish was found in Azores, Portugal, and it reportedly weighed more than 6,000 pounds. The Atlantic Naturalist Association says the sunfish broke a world record.
October 24, 2022 Florida woman, 8 months pregnant, polespears fish for potential world record catch Julie Augustine, a mother-to-be from Destin, Florida, caught a potential world record fish with a polespear while freediving in the eighth month of her pregnancy.
October 20, 2022 ME lobster fishermen's lawsuit against whale protection rule expedited by federal court A lawsuit filed by Maine lobster fishermen has been expedited by a federal appeals court. They are opposing new rules that were intended to protect North Atlantic right whales.
October 17, 2022 Video captures breaching humpback whale nearly land on fishing boat off Jersey shore A father-son fishing trip featured an encounter the pair will never forget, and it was all caught on video. A breaching humpback whale nearly landed on their boat.
October 12, 2022 Pair of anglers embroiled in Lake Erie fishing cheating controversy indicted on felony charges The two fishermen caught up in a cheating controversy at a Lake Erie walleye fishing tournament were indicted on felony charges weeks after the incident.
October 11, 2022 ME lobster fishermen hire ex-DOJ official to challenge new whale laws Lobster fishermen in ME hired a former U.S. Department of Justice official to represent them in a legal battle challenging new laws aimed at protecting Northern Atlantic right whales.
