Seafood Sustainability

8+ hour, 36+ min ago   (231+ words) Did you see that story making the rounds on social media about a lobster that caused such a disturbance in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, that the police were called? According to the internet, a lobster that just wanted a taste of…...

18+ hour, 37+ min ago   (220+ words) A federal appeals court has sided with the California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium, which faced a defamation lawsuit from Maine lobstermen and groups representing the state's industry. The lobstermen sued three years ago, after the aquarium's Seafood Watch program stripped the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (151+ words) Midcoast Villager BOSTON — A federal appeals court has ordered that a defamation lawsuit filed more than three years ago by the Maine Lobstermen’s Association against a California-based aquarium over claims made against the industry be dismissed. The First…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1040+ words) Lam's Seafood in Seattle's Chinatown International District says Nick Shirley's latest video pushes misleading claims about its business. Nick Shirley is a right-wing independent journalist, and his latest video claims to investigate EBT fraud in the CID and Little Saigon....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (646+ words) The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued an interesting torts decision yesterday on group libel. In Bean Maine Lobster, Inc. v. Monterey Bay Aquarium Found., a unanimous appellate panel ruled that the Maine lobster industry could not…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (326+ words) The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s ruling and dismissed the Maine lobster industry’s defamation lawsuit against a California aquarium on Friday. The plaintiffs argued the foundation made “false and defamatory statements” about the Maine lobster industry’s practices…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (168+ words) By Conservation Law Foundation October 9, 2026 | 2 min to read “This ruling brings us one step closer to protecting the health of Maine’s waters and the ecosystems, industries, and communities that rely on them,” said CLF senior attorney Maggie Nivison. “These enormous…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (600+ words) The lawsuit alleging former Ports Director Geno Marconi ran a corrupt fiefdom at Rye Harbor is in trouble, as Hillsborough Superior Court — North Judge William Delker dismissed nine of the 10 counts in the civil complaint. Rye Harbor Lobster Pound owners…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (729+ words) On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a Maine lobsterman’s challenge to a regulation requiring tracking devices on lobstering vessels to operate 24/7 while in the water. The mandated devices identify a vessel’s location every sixty seconds while…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (372+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a Maine lobsterman’s legal challenge to an electronic vessel tracker requirement, putting an end to the multi-year lawsuit. In an order Monday, the court denied a request to take up the appeal by Frank…...