It was at about the fifth hour, his biceps and forearms burning, when Cooper Allen wondered if they were going to lose the battle at sea. Cliff Allen, his father, captaining their boat, quietly ...

Recently, I had a report that a swordfish was spotted in the Gulf of Maine by one of the party fishing boats out of Hampton Harbor. This surprised me but on second thought, the fishery is above its ...

I first saw the swordfish at 7:50 a.m. about 12 miles off the coast. He was 50 yards away, swimming kind of erratically and slowly. He was so big that I was a little afraid of him at first. I figured ...

The federal government shut down California’s swordfish fleet Thursday, ordering the two dozen boats to stop stringing more than a million baited hooks across a large swath of the Pacific Ocean ...

Permits are being issued to commercial swordfish fishermen who forgo large drift nets for a new system that won’t also capture whales and dolphins. The National Marine Fisheries Service recently ...