Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and watercraft such as surfboards, kayaks and jet skis. Any vessel within 500 yards ...

The rule would have limited boats as small as 35 feet to 10 knots when North Atlantic right whales were migrating through ...

After conservationists pushed for more, NOAA Fisheries withdrew a proposal that would have expanded boat speed limits and ...

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right ...

Over 75 extremely rare sea creatures — about “ 20% of the entire population ” — were spotted off the Maine coast, photos show.

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

The proposed changes, which they argued could hurt the fishing and boating industries and other related businesses.

The proposed rules would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters in an attempt to save the endangered ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are warning boaters about a large group of North Atlantic right ...

A stricter speed limit isn't coming to the waters of the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds off the Georgia coast ...

Withdrawal of an environmental rule by NOAA with an estimated economic impact of $46.2 million along the Eastern Seaboard ...