January 28, 2025 — An official in the U.S. state of Maine has alerted lobstermen to take precautions to prevent entanglements with right whales after a large presence of the mammals have been seem off the state’s southern coast.
Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioners Patrick Keliher said regulators have detected as many as 90 individual whales on the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge off the southern coast of the state.