Thousands of abandoned lobster traps have silently littered Long Island Sound for decades. Now, a local effort to locate them all has received a significant boost. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this May 2, 2016, photo, Bobby Kent pushes a baited lobster pot into the waters of Long Island Sound off Groton, Conn.

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut loves its seafood, and one of the all-time favorites is lobster. For decades, the crustaceans were caught off the coast of Connecticut. But, in the late 90s, ...

DARIEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Some fishermen feel there’s no point of even going out on their boat due to a steep decline in Long Island Sound’s lobster population. They met with Senator Chris Murphy on ...

Amid continuing evidence of decline more than a decade after a huge die-off decimated the Long Island Sound lobster population, the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced ...

Two decades after Connecticut’s lobster industry collapsed, federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left on the floor of the ...