PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • May 16, 2020
Conservation groups are calling for the banning of vertical rope in lobstering off Cape Cod, saying it can snare endangered right whales. In a legal brief filed Friday, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Center for Biological Diversity and others called for an immediate ban on lobster lines in the area. They also call for a more comprehensive plan to protect the whales by February 2021. The environmental groups sued claiming that regulators violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to protect the right whales.