NOAA scientists have developed a population model for Atlantic herring that links herring population trends to the size of the haddock population.

A NOAA Fisheries scallop survey off the northeastern coast between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows high numbers of juvenile "recruit" sea scallops and ocean quahogs on Georges Bank tempered with weak numbers for seed scallops in the Mid-Atlantic for 2009.

Conservationists are now able to watch the movement of large groups of fish as they gather into sandbanks.

By NANCY REARDON As Massachusetts lawmakers and environmental groups gear up to block oil drilling off the New England coast, the debate on how much oil and natural gas is out there is back for the first time in close to 30 years.

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