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Lawsuit to save humpbacks would ban drift gillnets in Southern California, hurt bluefin harvesters

Commercial harvesters of Pacific bluefin tuna, swordfish and thresher sharks are reported to be the most likely to feel the pain should the complaint be successful

By Jason Huffman | Oct. 28, 2022 18:27 BST
Humpback whales. Photograph by Ed Lyman for NOAA.
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A lawsuit filed Thursday by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) seeks to make the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) conduct a new biological review and ban the use of drift gillnets in "areas of highest risk" for humpback whale entanglements on the US West Coast [...]

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