May 7, 2023 | Info, News Story
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD – Along the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, scientists, engineers and fishermen are working feverishly to develop a new, high-tech way to harvest lobster – and the resultcould be the key to survival of both the U.S. lobster...
Apr 27, 2023 | Info, News Story
MAINE PUBLIC – State lawmakers are considering a measure that would create a new fund to help lobster fishermen test gear designed to reduce designed to reduce entanglement risks to endangered North Atlantic right whales. The proposed fund would set aside $1...
Apr 24, 2023 | Info, News Story
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Whales were once an economic obsession. Oil rendered from their blubber—which lit the lamps and lubricated the machinery of the industrial era—fetched up to about $63 per gallon in today’s dollars in the mid-1800s. Whaling fleets killed...
Apr 23, 2023 | Info, Op-Ed
PORTLAND PRESS HERALD – Today is the inaugural Right Whale Day, an effort by the state of Massachusetts to raise awareness of the plight of the North Atlantic right whale. It could not have come at a more critical time. More than a third of the species has been...
Mar 15, 2023 | Info, News Story
NEW HAMPSHIRE BULLETIN – Once hunted to near-extinction, the greatest threats to the endangered North Atlantic rightwhale now are accidental encounters with humans. Federal efforts to protect the whale species, which spends most of the year off the coast of New...
Mar 8, 2023 | Info, News Story
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION – With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales left on the planet, the species is one step away from extinction. Humans pose the biggest threat to their survival due to entanglements with fishing gear and collisions with ships and...
