PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 22, 2021
Maine’s top elected officials are urging the federal government to throw out and rewrite a set of controversial new rules regulating Maine’s lobster fishery, calling the process “flawed and unfair.” In a letter sent Thursday to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, and Gov. Janet Mills lauded a federal judge’s decision last week to block the enforcement of a seasonal closure of a large section of the Gulf of Maine that was slated to go into effect Monday.