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ME officials using federal spending bill to delay protections for whales in order to protect lobster industry

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Officials in Maine will use the federal spending bill to delay the new protections for whales that are endangered. The protections would have negatively affected the lobster industry.

of deciding"to play politics with the survival of a critically endangered species."

Conservation groups have pushed for a different type of fishing gear to avoid entanglements, which along with boat strikes are one of the two big threats to the whales.

 

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