Por: Portland Press Herald Business February 13, 2023
A group of Massachusetts lobster fishers has sued the federal government over an emergency closure of fishing grounds that is designed to protect a vanishing species of whale. The closure, enacted Feb. 1, blocked off about 200 square miles of Massachusetts Bay from lobster fishing until the end of April. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the closure was necessary to protect North Atlantic right whales from dangerous... + full article
Portland Press Herald USA Opinion February 05, 2023
The Jan. 28 letter about steps Maine has taken to protect right whales is mistaken. Congress might have made a foolish move passing the omnibus rider. Maine lobstermen can be proud that they have built a sustainable fishery and lobster population. It is true that Maine... + más
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Maine Voices: There’s a profound moral impetus to protect the right whale | Portland Press Herald
Portland Press Herald USA Nation January 10, 2023
Sternman Ben Foster unloads lobsters from the boat Sleepless Nights at Greenhead Lobster in Stonington in May 2022. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer, file Maine lobstermen have gotten a six-year reprieve on new regulations designed to protect North Atlantic right whales, but... + más
Humpback whales spotted charging orca trying to hunt in Monterey Bay | Newsweek
Fox News USA Politics December 22, 2022
Maine lobstermen who are fighting a federal regulation that threatens to eliminate their state's lobstering heritage scored a policy victory in the after a White House state dinner put the controversy in the spotlight.After a push from Maine lawmakers, Congress inserted a... + más
Maine lobstermen deal with another new rule, and it’s not about right whales | Portland Press Herald
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Portland Press Herald USA Nation December 20, 2022
Conservationists and Maine lobstermen took their fight over efforts to save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale all the way to the Supreme Court. Michael Dwyer/Associated Press, File Lawmakers from Maine have inserted a provision in a massive government funding... + más
Portland Press Herald USA Opinion November 29, 2022
In an apparent attempt to shame Maine lobster fishermen into giving up their livelihoods, a corporate giant – Whole Foods – has suspended the sale of Maine lobsters, saying right whales get caught in the trap lines. As right whales are endangered, lobstering – they say –... + más
Biden’s First State Dinner Serves Up Lobster—And Controversy | Forbes
ABC News USA World October 14, 2022
Hundreds of pilot whales that beached on the Chatham Islands in the last week died of natural causes or were euthanized, according to New Zealand's Department of Conservation.Officials responded to two mass strandings of pilot whales. The first group of 240 pilot whales... + más
New Zealand strandings leave 477 pilot whales dead | Portland Press Herald
Newsweek USA Nation October 04, 2022
A large group of humpback whales have been spotted charging at orcas who were trying to hunt in Monterey Bay, California.Monterey Bay Whale Watch said on a Facebook post that vessels recently saw five orcas, or killer whales, with 20 humpback whales surrounding them, and at... + más
Orcas filmed terrorizing humpback whales in battle off Washington coast | Newsweek
Orca from Russia's infamous whale jail spotted thriving in wild | Newsweek
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