STATEMENT REGARDING UPDATED NECROPSY FINDINGS FOR RIGHT WHALE #5120

Oct 3, 2024 | Press Release

MAINE COALITION FOR NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALES – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOCTOBER 03, 2024STATEMENT REGARDING UPDATED NECROPSY FINDINGS FOR RIGHT WHALE #5120 The updated necropsy findings from right whale #5120 highlight the rigorous scientific processthat went...

Dead Right Whale Entanglement Confirmed as Maine Lobster Gear

Oct 2, 2024 | Urgent News

NOAA FISHERIES – UPDATE: On October 2 2024, NOAA Fisheries released an update on necropsy findings from histopathology and diagnostic analysis of tissues from dead right whale #5120. The cause of death is determined to be from a chronic gear entanglement....

Maine lobstermen signal opposition to participating in ropeless testing program

Nov 29, 2023 | Info, News Story

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD – Maine lobstermen are signaling their hesitation to participate in a multimillion-dollar program the state is launching to test new ropeless technology that the federal government soon may require to protect the endangered North Atlantic...

Gear-lending program has harvesters working through closures and trying ropeless fishing gear without commitment

Oct 10, 2023 | Info, News Story

RESPONSIBLE SEAFOOD ADVOCATE – Snow crab fishers in one area of Nova Scotia had a new visitor this season and found themselvesclosed out of their fishing waters. “We got a 37 percent cut in our quota and [Northern right] whales presented themselves in our zone...

Effort to save right whales gets $82 million federal grant

Sep 18, 2023 | Info, News Story

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD – The federal government plans to invest $82 million over the next three years to develop new technology and methods to rescue the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from extinction.  On Monday, the Biden administration...