Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

A notoriously brutal industry is slowly building supports for its workers.

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.

Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

A beached whale creates a ripple effect in a small fishing village.

He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.

On the troubled, legendary Deschutes River fly-fishing guide.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

On fishing, physics, and life's intangibles.

<p>“Back when his girls were girls, with fluffy pink rugs on their bathroom floor, Burgundy wasn’t much of a second-guesser. He was a richly confident physicist with work at the university. He golfed. They went to the club. Even when there were questions of the girls smoking or skipping school (and there were always questions, wink-wink), Burgundy hadn’t worried about His Girls. They weren’t that kind of a family. And anyway (so lovely were His Girls) if they would have been that kind of family they would have worn it well. Being well-paid, occupied and cohesively married does wonders for a man’s confidence.”</p>

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.

A narrator shares a philosophical discussion with the late orator.

"Cicero and I mounted a johnboat banked in the mud along this near finger of Mark Twain Lake. Neither of us wanted to do the shoving off. Our feet would have to get wet."

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

Trying to fix the Atlantic Ocean’s food chain.

Law enforcement vs. local fishermen in Massachusetts.

Notes on a summer spent aboard an industrial fishing boat off the Alaskan coast.