Lobster fishers sue to block closure meant to aid whales

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Lobster fishers sue to block closure meant to aid whales
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A group of Massachusetts lobster fishers has sued the federal government over an emergency closure of fishing grounds that is designed to protect a vanishing species of whale.

and sued the federal agency in court this month.

The fishing group is waiting to hear about a court date, said Beth Casoni, it's executive director. The group said in court filings that the closure harms and an industry that is “essential to Massachusetts's culture, heritage, identity and economy,” and the court should reopen the fishing grounds.A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declined to comment on the lawsuit because it's still in court.

The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has said the closures are important “to protect seasonal aggregations of right whales from potential entanglements in buoy lines.” Some environmental groups have also cheered the restriction because they see it as essential to protecting the whale, which has declined in population in recent years.Lobster fishing in the U.S.

The industry is also more productive than it has ever been. U.S. lobster fishermen caught nearly 135 million pounds of lobster worth about $925 million in 2021. Lobster fishers never topped 100 million pounds in a single year until 2010. About 110 million pounds of lobster came to the docks in Maine in 2021 and about 17 million in Massachusetts.

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