Someone cut off the head of a sea lion in Northern California and rode off with it in a bag. Authorities are now offering $20 ...

Federal investigators with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a person seen ...

WesPac Fishery Management Council discussed updates on false killer whale stocks, among other issues relating to Marine ...

President Donald Trump wants to increase logging in national forests and on public lands, including by bypassing endangered ...

Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources took aim Wednesday at the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), arguing both landmark statutes ...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) states that the term “take” means to harass, hunt, capture, kill or attempt to harass ...

An orca was spotted balancing a salmon on its head in late October near Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula, according to the Orca Network. This specific killer whale is known to marine biologists and whale ...

NOAA serves the American public in many ways — yet, because the agency also engages in climate change research, many ...

For the Makah Tribe, hunting whales is tradition. The tribal council submitted an application for a hunt under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A pair of adult female right whales are still roaming around off Florida's west coast while calving off the Atlantic Coast continues.