WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on April 10: A federal judge ruled Thursday that the National Marine Fisheries Service's management of the American lobster fishery violates the federal Endangered Species Act. The court held that the agency failed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales and that its biological opinion on the fishery violated "straightforward" requirements of the Act, putting the whales at greater   more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, April 7 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following story: * * * - The Northeast U.S. Shelf is one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world. According to new reports, climate change, coastal and ocean processes, and human uses affect ecosystem productivity but also fishing communities and regional economies. * * * Two newly issued reports provide a snapshot of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem. They look at everything fro  more