that it has added the American and Canadian lobster fisheries to its “red list” of species to avoid over concerns about risks to whales.
A third-party assessor that monitors fisheries’ conformance with MSC standards conducted an audit of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery in September and found the fishing industry out of compliance, MSC said in a statement. The auditor found the fishery out of compliance because of a federal court decision that said the rules governing the industry don’t satisfy the Endangered Species Act or the Maine Mammal Protection Act, the organization said.
Right whales number about 340 and their population is falling. They are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with large ships.Whales off California coast eat 10 million pieces of tiny plastic pollution a day, new Stanford study estimates