Lobster Industry Ensnared in North Atlantic Right Whale Deaths
2/11/2018
Last year was not a good one for the North Atlantic right whale. Seventeen of them were discovered to have died, about 4 percent of a total population of 455. Numbers have been low for decades—the species was declared endangered in 1973—but if the current trend continues, the North Atlantic right ...
2/8/2018
BOSTON — Back in December, then-National Marine Fisheries Service regional director John Bullard told a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council that the lobster industry needed to make changes to their gear to decrease their impact on North Atlantic right whales, which he said ...