Maine’s Beleaguered Lobster Industry Just Got a Life Raft, Thanks to Congress’s Latest Spending Bill

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Stricter rules to protect whales may be delayed.

industry, however, counters that claim, and says it changed some of its practices earlier this year to help minimize risk.

Groups trying to protect the right whales are, unsurprisingly, not very happy with the delay of the rules’ implementation. If waiting until 2029 to change things, the whales could go extinct before then, they say. “Sacrificing a great whale to extinction in exchange for funding the government is immoral,” Brett Hartl, the government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the. “A hundred years from now, no one will remember or care about the trivial victories Democrats will try to claim in this legislation, but they’ll mourn the loss of the right whale.”

Previously, a federal judge had ruled that the government wasn’t doing enough to protect the right whales, and gave the government until December 2024 to issue new regulations. While fisheries and ship strikes are also threats to the whales, researchers believe that lobstering in the Gulf of Maine poses a great risk. But the lobsters are also a vital resource in Maine, and the industry employs a huge swath of people in the state.

 

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