Governor pushes back at feds on protection for rare whales
Source: Associated Press
By DAVID SHARP 14 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A directive for new protections for endangered right whales represents an “absurd federal overreach” that places an unfair burden on Maine’s signature lobster fishery, Gov. Janet Mills said.
She ordered the state Department of Marine Resources to draft an alternative plan that would reduce the impact on lobstermen.
“My administration will not allow any bureaucrat to undermine our lobster industry or our economy with foolish, unsupported and ill-advised regulations,” she wrote in a letter this week to the lobster industry.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants the state to present a plan in September for reducing the lobster industry’s threat to right whales by 60%.
The plan would mean reducing by half the number of lobster trap lines that could entangle whales. It would also require weaker rope for traps in federal waters.
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Hey ......do you by some chance know exactly what whales do so that we can breath on this planet and help your industry..................here let me give you two clue's.......................
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whales-keep-carbon-out-of-the-atmosphere/
https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/03/06/corals-lobsters-oysters-oh/
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With all the news of dead grey whales on the west coast, beluga whales in Alaska and vaquita (harbor porpoises) being threatened with extinction, and other whales such as the baleen whales, right whales, bowhead whales, humpback whales, etc) threatened or endangered it is easy to see that our planet is dying little by little. Climate change is increasing the demise and people are too greedy collecting more money to see it.
Sorry, this is rant day for me - 
