Nov 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday appeared open to upholding a federal rule requiring commercial fishermen to fund a program to monitor for overfishing of herring off New England's ...

PORTLAND, Maine — A group of lobster fishermen has sued fishing regulators in federal court, claiming that new electronic monitoring requirements designed to protect rare whales are unconstitutional.

The challenge to a federal fishing regulation that led to the Chevron doctrine's demise returned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday. At least two judges on the panel seemed to ...