After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right whale conservation.

NC charter fishermen and officials expressed concern that the rule, intended to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, would harm business.

The rule would have limited boats as small as 35 feet to 10 knots when North Atlantic right whales were migrating through NC's near-shore waters.

Pacific Storm put to sea. We sailed a leg due ... commentary directed at our persistent and irritating little boat—some kind of whale expletive, probably. It rose above the whale's head like ...