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Ropeless lobster traps among whale-saving proposals to be discussed by US panel

The Atlantic Large Whale Reduction Team, which advises the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is scheduled to meet in Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 9-12

By Undercurrent News | Oct. 3, 2018 18:53 BST
For illustration only. A humpback whale is snared by a rope like those used on lobster traps in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Photo: Scott Benson for NOAA
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Reducing the number of seabed-to-surface lobster trap lines off the coast of Maine and going entirely ropeless by 2020 are among the many proposals aimed at reducing whale entanglements that are to be discussed next week (Oct. 9-12) by the Atlantic Large Whale Reduction Team when it meets in Providence, Rhode Island, the Portland Press Herald reports. [...]

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