A journey aboard the Tacoma headed for Taylor Island provides a window into region’s pioneering past. A Cornish fisher shuffles [...] ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California ...

Kock drops anchor ... to a rope while two crew members pour scoops of chum into the water. "Shark!" Rutzen cries as a huge triangular fin breaks the water about ten yards from the boat.

In 1712, a Captain Hussey, cruising in his little boat for right whales along Nantucket ... After 15 minutes or so, Keogh and a colleague spotted a giant anchor some 20 feet below the surface.

As the opposing campaigns for the referendum on whether or not the government should construct cruise berthing facilities heat up, ...