Lobstermen are relieved that new, stricter rules to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales will be delayed until 2024, giving regulators more time to address the concerns of fishermen and environmentalists.
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Maine lobsters to lose another sustainability label over threat to whales
The Maine lobster catch has carried the Marine Stewardship Council’s blue-and-white ‘eco-label’ for years, but a legal case will result in the certification being suspended.
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Maine lobstering group backs new speed limit on ships to protect whales
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association says the first such restriction in over a decade illustrates how little shipping has been regulated compared to the lobster industry.
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Endangered whale’s decline slows, but population continues to fall
One of the biggest challenges facing the right whales today is that the number of female whales capable of breeding appears to be falling.
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Our View: Republicans offer anger, but no real solutions, for lobster industry
Competing interests are colliding in the Gulf of Maine. It’ll be up to our elected officials to find a compromise.
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Maine Voices: There’s a profound moral impetus to protect the right whale
Let’s pull together for an endangered species that, as you may have noticed in recent weeks, has no constituency.
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Court agrees to fast-track Maine lobstering group’s appeal of whale rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agrees to expedite the Maine Lobstermen’s Association’s appeal of a National Marine Fisheries Service decision regarding right whale protections.
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Fishermen hire Bush-era official in challenge to whale laws
The Maine Lobstermen’s Association is appealing its case against the new rules to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Mainers say new lobster regulations could kill the industry
Roughly 200 people, including Gov. Mills and most of Maine’s congressional delegation, attended a hearing in Portland to tell federal officials that proposed new regulations would do little to protect endangered right whales.
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Commentary: Canada is doing its part to protect right whales
There has been a steady drumbeat eager to ‘Blame Canada’ for the plight of North Atlantic right whales.