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Maine Lobstermen's Association says it will go to Supreme Court to prevent more federal restrictionsThe Maine Lobstermen's Association says it will go all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary, to prevent more federal restrictions aimed at protecting endangered right whales.
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Maine’s congressional delegation also wants federal officials to provide Maine fishermen and other stakeholders with access to a tool to assess the effect of new fishing management measures.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the National Marine Fisheries Service rationally drew on the best available data to develop regulations and that he would not strike them down.
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In its announcement, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program says a review of scientific data shows current management measures don't go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the North Atlantic right whale.
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A federal judge ruled Friday that federal fisheries regulators are violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to adequately protect North Atlantic right whales from potentially deadly entanglements in fishing gear, including the rope used by Maine's lobster fleet.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council and other conservation groups are challenging a seafood watchdog's recertification of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery as a sustainable resource.
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Endangered whale numbers may be stabilizing after some bad years, but their future remains uncertainNo dead right whales have been spotted. Fifteen calves were born — the second-largest number since 2015. And observers were impressed by the saga of one whale, a mother who, injured and entangled in fishing gear, managed to escort her calf a thousand miles up the coast
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Last week federal officials announced they aim to deploy high-tech fishing gear on as many as 100 lobster and crab boats in New England. It's the latest move to bring Maine's lobster fleet into a new era, as an onslaught of potentially transformative federal regulations intended to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales take effect.
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Federal fisheries officials are proposing a special permit to allow up to 100 New England lobster and crab boats to use experimental high-tech systems to retrieve their traps.
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Starting on May 1, most of Maine's fleet is supposed to have adopted weak rope or installed weak plastic links in their trap-rope that will make it easier for whales to break through without injury or death.