PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 1, 2022
More than 99 percent of the 4 billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone. At least 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries.” Extinction is a part of life. Maybe it’s time we let the right whale join that 99 percent, and let our lobstermen go about their business, feeding their families and ours, as well as all the folks whose jobs and livelihoods are involved in, and depend on, keeping lobstering a successful industry. ~ Russell Frank, Gorham