This week a conference in Providence is considering new measures that could help endangered North Atlantic right whales avoid life-threatening entanglements in fishing gear. These measures could also affect Maine’s lobster industry. Possible solutions range from modifying the rope lobster harvesters use to haul their traps, to trap limits, to seasonal closures of the fishery. […]
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Atlantic Lobster Board Moves Toward Reducing Rope In Effort To Save Right Whales
A consortium of Atlantic states fisheries managers is calling for broad changes to the gear lobstermen use, in an effort to reduce risks posed to the endangered North Atlantic right whale and to ward off potential federal action that could be even more challenging for the industry.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Meeting Wraps Up With Recommendations For Reducing Entanglements
Members of the lobster industry and environmentalists are asking federal regulators to improve a plan meant to reduce the likelihood of North Atlantic right whales getting entangled in commercial fishing lines, which can cause them to die. The whales are an endangered species. There is only about 450 of them left, and last year, more […]