Maine lobster industry groups and business owners filed a lawsuit this week, accusing a California-based eco group of defamation related to its 'sustainability' ratings program.
Fourth-generation lobsterman Dustin Delano reacts to green groups targeting lobster fishing with funds from dark money groups.filed a federal lawsuit this week, accusing a powerful environmental group that doles out"sustainability" ratings of defamation.
The Bridges family — which includes fourth, fifth and sixth generation lobstermen — from Corea, Maine, is pictured. Bryan Bridges says if he can't sell lobster, it will cause"extreme hardship" for his family. "They've removed 30,000 miles of rope from the ocean, they have areas where they don't fish, they've limited the number of traps, they've initiated weakened ropes — that any species that goes through the ropes can break away. And it is those innovations that have actually contributed to the survivability and the sustainability of the right whale.
Maine lobstermen have also argued, like Lipson, claims that their practices endanger Atlantic right whales or other whale species are inaccurate."Lobstermen have been under constant assault for the past several years. Yet the science is clear — right whales are not dying in Maine lobster gear," Patrice McCarron, the MLA's policy director, said in a statement."In fact, the opposite is true; innovations by Maine lobstermen have been instrumental in minimizing harm to whales.
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