Lobster industry
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PublishedOctober 22, 2022
Maine Voices: There’s a profound moral impetus to protect the right whale
Let’s pull together for an endangered species that, as you may have noticed in recent weeks, has no constituency.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2022
Court agrees to fast-track Maine lobstering group’s appeal of whale rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agrees to expedite the Maine Lobstermen's Association's appeal of a National Marine Fisheries Service decision regarding right whale protections.
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PublishedOctober 11, 2022
Fishermen hire Bush-era official in challenge to whale laws
The Maine Lobstermen's Association is appealing its case against the new rules to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2022
Mainers say new lobster regulations could kill the industry
Roughly 200 people, including Gov. Mills and most of Maine's congressional delegation, attended a hearing in Portland to tell federal officials that proposed new regulations would do little to protect endangered right whales.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2022
Commentary: Canada is doing its part to protect right whales
There has been a steady drumbeat eager to 'Blame Canada' for the plight of North Atlantic right whales.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
Commentary: What more can our lobstermen do than all they have been asked?
The recent ‘redlisting’ ignores that, for 25 years, Maine lobstermen have been playing by the rules – and those rules have worked.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2022
Fishermen must have more opportunity to be heard about whale rules, Gov. Mills says
The governor says federal regulators' plan to provide only 1 chance for public comment about the new rules later this month is not sufficient.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2022
Maine politicians scramble to show support for lobster industry
Long seen as emblematic of Maine's hardworking ethos, lobstering holds an outsized influence on the state's electorate and politicians from both parties want to show voters that they are on board.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2022
Federal judge rejects bid to block new lobstering rules
U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg turned down a bid by lobstermen's groups and the state to halt the new federal rules designed to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2022
Our View: Dispute over lobstering in Gulf of Maine close to running aground
If the goal is to protect both right whales and the fishing industry, the debate is heading in the wrong direction.
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