James Binniker has been the assistant director of NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement since 2022. A retired Coast Guard commander who for 26 years oversaw marine law enforcement, search-and-rescue ...

GLOUCESTER — Nearly six years after being savaged by a Commerce Department investigation that portrayed it as a department basically run amuck, the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement has issued ...

Coast Guard Cutter Tybee arrived in San Diego, Ca. on Friday escorting the King Diamond II, a Honolulu-based, 82-ft. fishing vessel with 12 tons of prohibited shark fins onboard. A Coast Guard law ...

NAGS HEAD, N.C. (WAVY) — Shore-based anglers are protesting fines and regulations on bluefin tuna fishing from land after a NOAA law enforcement officer notified Jennette’s Pier last week that it is ...

RODANTHE, N.C. — The law enforcement office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is investigating the death of a humpback whale that washed up off of Pea Island on Tuesday ...

The NOAA Office of Law Enforcement is investigating an incident involving an elephant seal pup that was stabbed multiple times but found alive on the Oregon Coast. The incident occurred March 16 ...

"We're fortunate that people watching knew what they were seeing was not right." Videographer's footage of yacht owner's ...

I'M ERIN CLARK. DAN GREEN IS OFF TONIGHT. WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH RENEWED CONCERNS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR LOCAL MARINE WILDLIFE. THIS -- AFTER NEW VIDEO SHOWS PEOPLE GETTING áVERY CLOSE TO ANIMALS.

Investigators are searching for a person of interest in the stabbing of an elephant seal pup earlier this year along the Oregon Coast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ...

PENDER CO., N.C. (WECT) - A dead dolphin was found without its head in Pender County. Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, say someone intentionally decapitated ...

Annapolis, Md. boatbuilder Ocean Craft Marine (OCM) said it is preparing to deliver a custom-designed high-performance boat to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Law ...