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Stellwagen Bank marine sanctuary is home to more than 200 sunken shipwrecks, many of which are hotspots for marine debris. Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are proposing a robot to clean them up.

Prehistoric animals roam the Massachusetts coastline. And this time of year they’re storming the beaches for their annual spawning season. Here's a closer look at how horseshoe crabs reproduce, and what officials are doing to protect them.

“The firefighting foam … was mostly used in the 70s and 80s, and one additional application in 1997 at the base,” said Heidi Pickard. “This is decades later that you're still seeing high levels in the fish.”

According to officials, the closure will impact some recreational shellfishermen, the city of New Bedford, which had hoped to open up an aquaculture industry within the Clark's Cove area, and two quahog harvesters — effective immediately.

A Sandwich resident is rallying veterans to trap the invasive crabs by the bushel and sell them to local restaurants and bait shops.

The "Red List" label pushed Whole Foods, Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, and others to stop selling the shellfish caught in U.S. waters. More than 25,000 restaurants, stores, and distributors use the Red List to help guide purchasing and menu choices.

Massachusetts Lobstermen are looking for a new way to fish during an annual 3-month-long closure established to protect migrating whales. CAI’s Eve Zuckoff reports they’ve just been awarded a 1.2 million grant to develop technology on their own.

Proposals to allow company names on shellfish aquaculture licenses have sparked heated debates in some Cape Cod communities.

A national conservation group is honoring Francis Smith for decades of work restoring the Quashnet River.

The Center for Coastal Studies, located in Provincetown, has been granted more than $2.7 million in federal money to tackle the problem of hauling lost or abandoned fishing gear out of the environment.