September 28, 2021 — Maine’s governor is intervening in a federal lawsuit that concerns the future of right whale protections and lobster fishing off New England.
The lawsuit was filed by conservation group Center for Biological Diversity against the federal government and it makes the case that federal management of the lobster fishing industry violates federal law because it can harm the rare whales. The whales are vulnerable to lethal entanglement in fishing gear.
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