A lobster working group organized by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Council (ASMFC) voted at a meeting in Virginia this week to recommend a goal of having harvesters reduce their use of vertical rope by 20 to 40% in every lobster conservation management area in order to help protect North Atlantic right whales from getting snared, the news service Maine Public reports [...]
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