GLOUCESTER, Mass. — October 9, 2013 — Federal fishing regulators have eliminated a strategy that aims to protect the harbor porpoise by closing New England fishermen out of certain areas
The so-called ‘‘consequence closures’’ were enacted if too many porpoise were caught in stationary nets, called gillnets.
Harbor porpoise aren’t endangered, and gillnet fishermen said being shut out of entire areas to protect the animals was financially crippling and unnecessarily restrictive.
Read the full story by the Associated Press at The Boston Globe