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NMFS swimming in comments on right whale rules with little time to act

The US National Marine Fisheries Service has received at least 171,000 comments on its proposed new lobster trap rules designed to reduce whale entanglements

By Jason Huffman | March 4, 2021 16:50 GMT
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Maine lobster harvester Tim Marcoux throws one back for being too small. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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Moving ahead with the trap and rope restrictions included in the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposal to better protect whales would kill the industry, said Ready Seafood, the Saco, Maine-based company that reports to now be North America's largest lobster wholesaler [...]

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