Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by.

ALBANY — The days of anglers taking as many herring as they can catch from the Hudson River, something that dates back to the Colonial era, may be coming to an end. Have a say Comments can on proposed ...

When I was a small fry, vacationing at the Youth Hostel on Martha’s Vineyard, my family spent an afternoon paddling up Herring Run Creek. When we reached shallow water and got out to push, we noticed ...

Herring harvests are being cut by millions of pounds because of concerns about the important little fish’s population, the federal government announced on Wednesday. Herring fishing is a major ...

Every winter, a small fleet of commercial fishing boats sets gillnets in the San Francisco Bay. Their target: Pacific herring, which enter the estuary in huge numbers to spawn and are easily caught by ...

In an ominous environmental sign, state regulators this week closed all herring fishing in San Francisco Bay for the first time ever, shutting down the last commercial fishery in the Bay. A 6-inch, ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — The federal government is limiting the harvest of an important bait fish for the rest of the year from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Atlantic herring are harvested on the ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A seagull, standing on a rock in the Saugatucket River, waddled closer to the seam of foamy water swirling by. There, in the crashing shallows below the Main Street Dam, the gull ...