lobster industry
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PublishedDecember 8, 2021
Lobstermen to weigh in on plan for monitoring of boats
The lobster fishing business is facing a host of other new restrictions to try to protect the rare whales.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2021
Supreme Court denies Maine Lobstering Union’s request to reopen closed area
The union's members don't know what legal steps they might take until they discuss the ruling with their legal team.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2021
Groups seek input from Maine fishermen to improve industry education
Maine Coast Fishermen's Association Executive Director Ben Martens said the goal is to identify where existing education and training programs "might be enhanced to better meet the needs of the next generation."
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PublishedNovember 18, 2021
Lobstermen must start removing gear to save whales, federal regulators say
New rules make roughly 950 square miles in the Gulf of Maine essentially off limits to lobster fishing from October through January.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2021
Federal appeals court reinstates lobstering closure in Gulf of Maine
A federal judge's ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Maine Lobstering Union and other industry businesses had temporarily halted the closure.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2021
Lobstermen’s group launches $10 million fundraising push to ‘save’ industry jobs
The Maine Lobstermen's Association says it needs money to fight new federal restrictions intended to help protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2021
Environmentalists can continue with lawsuit to protect whales
The groups want to expand areas and times in which a vessel speed limit applies, make the speed limits mandatory, and apply them to small and large vessels.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2021
Whale scientists fire back – with science – at critics of new lobstering rules
Marine biologists disagree with a judge's decision to block a seasonal closure in the Gulf of Maine and say there are ample data to justify the closure.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2021
Maine’s top elected officials urge feds to throw out new lobstering rules
Gov. Janet Mills and all four members of Maine's congressional delegation signed the letter to a top regulator urging the policy change.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2021
Our View: Maine lobster rules should be based on real-world data
A federal judge rightly finds that the government needs more than guesswork to issue its whale protection plan.
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