Last week, a fisherman landed a sheepshead that was a few ounces shy of record in Raritan Bay. Now a northern pufferfish was just landed in Barnegat Bay that could set a new angling benchmark once the ...

The water temperature is very warm in the bays and anglers are having more run-ins with tropical fish here and there. A member of Capt. Jeff Carr's fishing party landed either an amberjack or banded ...

New Jersey environmental officials suspended shellfish harvesting in an area known as Swan Point in northern Barnegat Bay.

Crabs are biting well this summer in New Jersey. The blue claw crab is being found in tidal creeks, rivers and shallow bays along the coast. The Barnegat Bay area in Ocean County is known to be a ...

It's mid-summer, the water is warm and fishermen don't have to soak a bait for long before a fish comes along and inspects it. There was a rare catch of a pompano in the surf and the blues were in a ...

A 20-foot-long Minke whale has died after it collided and nearly capsized a pleasure boat in New Jersey's Barnegat Bay on Saturday, an incident that knocked one boater overboard, officials said. The ...