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.

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 ...

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 the Atlantic herring colonized the Baltic Sea thousands of years ago, it needed to adapt to the low salinity. Genes with ...

Bradford Chase of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is standing beside the Johnson’s Flume herring run in ...

Once celebrated as a Revolutionary War savior, shad has become a rarity. That doesn’t stop its fans from seeking it out.

Shining Sea Fish Co. of Detroit, MI, is recalling its catch weight packages of "Ma Cohen’s Kippered Herring" smoked fish ...

The commercial fishing industry received a reprieve Friday when the state Fish and Game Commission backed off a move to impose a ban on herring fishing in San Francisco Bay. The commission instead ...

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 ...

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 ...