The U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday that the Cape Cod Canal is closed to all vessel traffic until at least Monday morning due to the presence of three endangered right whales in the waterway.
to ban lobster and crab trap and pot fishermen from working in a vast area of Massachusetts Bay over the next three months, citing threats to the endangered whale.
NOAA said on Jan. 31 that the emergency rule, which was also deployed in 2022, means that trap and pot fishermen fishing federal waters in an area known as the Massachusetts Restricted Area Wedge"must remove all trap/pot gear from this area, and may not reset trawls being actively fished, or set new trawls in this area for the period from February 1 - April 30, 2023."
NOAA cited a"high likelihood that endangered right whales are present throughout this area and in adjoining waters during February through April" and said fishing in that area"poses a particularly high risk of mortality or serious injury from entanglement in fishing gear." The risk exists, officials said, when right whales are exiting Cape Cod Bay at the same time and place where fishermen are either fishing or staging their gear in preparation for the May 1 opening of federal waters in the Massachusetts Restricted Area. NOAA said it was implementing the rule"at the request of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
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