Industrial fishing is prohibited in the coastal waters of the Cantagallo-Machalilla Marine Reserve in Ecuador’s Manabí province, which is home to numerous threatened species. Yet between ...

Lynham, on the other hand, says the recorded number of boats fishing in the area before the reserve was expanded was hardly insignificant. “There were 95 boats in 2013, 89 in 2014, and 94 in ...

The group was headed to the Cape Falcon Marine Reserve, a 12-square-mile plot of ocean off the coast of Oswald West State Park where fishing and ocean development has been prohibited since 2016.

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument — a 490,000-square-mile area of protected ocean south and ...

Trump said he will allow U.S.-flagged vessels to fish within 50 to 200 nautical miles of the landward boundaries of the monument, which covers some 490,000 square miles of open ocean, coral reef ...