Fishermen in Port Clyde, Maine, are modeling a standard that allows them to continue their fishing tradition, while also allowing the fish stocks to rebound.

Protecting tiny forage fish is good for the ecosystem and the economy.

A special thank you goes out to the thousands of Earthjustice supporters who took action over the last few months by writing to the fishery management councils. Your voices made a huge difference.

Lawsuit takes aim at agency’s long-term failure to examine whether industrial shellfish dredging conflicts with Refuge’s wildlife-protection purposes

The climate crisis is changing oceans, our laws must address that

Federal District Court Judge Samuel King has issued a ruling declaring that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is also illegally failing to protect the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal from the impacts of two other local fisheries, the lobster fishery and the portion of the bottomfish fishery operating in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Seek emergency action to correct violation of Endangered Species Act

Groups seek injunction until NMFS complies with law

As part of our work to preserve biodiversity, Earthjustice has mounted a series of legal challenges to protect vulnerable shark species from industrial fishing.

Fish consumption rates underestimate risk to people—must be updated

Coalition of coastal residents, fishermen and environmentalists files lawsuit against the federal government for failing to prevent overfishing and reduce waste in our nation’s fisheries.

Ruling requires a new biological opinion and analysis of environmental impacts of bottom longline fishing in the Gulf of Mexico

Six-month closure ordered of Gulf of Mexico fishery

Rare carnivore has been reduced to two populations in California, Oregon

Meet 16 of the hundreds of species Earthjustice has gone to court to protect.

Public health endangered—fish consumption rates underestimate risk to people

Port Clyde Fishermen Use Sustainable Methods, Cut out the Middlemen

Lawsuit seeks to ensure abundant anchovy populations needed to feed ocean wildlife