fishing

We went around downtown New Bedford and snapped some photos of our favorite boat names.

NEW BEDFORD _ Two men were arrested Wednesday on drug charges while aboard a fishing vessel in Buzzards Bay as a result of a port security operation with New Bedford Police Maritime Special Response Team, Massachusetts Environmental Police, the Department of Homeland Security and the New Bedford Police Port Security Unit ...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell says organizations bent on shutting down the fishing industry in the United States have expressed interest in Carlos Rafael's soon-to-be forfeited fishing permits. Rafael was found guilty this year of falsifying catch records in order to evade federal regulations...

NEW BEDFORD - One person has been injured following a collision involving two boats outside of New Bedford Harbor. The collision took place just before 10 a.m. Wednesday near the Butler Flats Lighthouse off the coast of the city's South End...

Montauk, NY - The search for a fisherman who went missing from a New Bedford-based fishing vessel continues Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard says the 55-year-old man went missing from the fishing vessel Miss Shauna Monday afternoon 25 miles south of Montauk, New York...

Flying sharks is the type of stuff nightmares are made of.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - A leading U.S. fishing magnate known as "The Codfather" is scheduled to plead guilty to federal charges of evading fishing quotas and smuggling money to Portugal. The U.S. attorney's office says Carlos Rafael has a change of plea hearing scheduled for Thursday...

BOSTON - New Bedford fishing magnate Carlos Rafael's plea hearing has been postponed. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts says "The Codfather's" next scheduled court appearance is March 30 at U.S. District Court in Boston. Rafael was originally scheduled to appear on March 20...

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) _ The U.S. Coast Guard says a sick fisherman was airlifted from his vessel off the coast of Massachusetts. Crews arrived at the 88-foot-long fishing boat "Athena," based out of New Bedford, about 115 miles east of Provincetown around 4:15 p...

BOSTON — The Coast Guard and local responders rescued six people Sunday from a 72-foot scallop boat sinking five miles off New Bedford. A person aboard the scallop boat, "Captain Jeff," used a VHF radio at 9:30 a.m. to hail watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, in Woods Hole, and report their boat was taking on water...