PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 9, 2022
Some members of the Maine Legislature have announced that they are sponsoring bills to punish Whole Foods for not selling lobster. This effort is mean-spirited and misdirected. The legislators’ efforts, and the efforts of anyone concerned about the lobster industry, should be aimed at obtaining scientific studies to prove once and for all that right whales are not being harmed by the lobster fishery. It will be cheaper, in the long run, to obtain data that exonerate the lobster industry than to endlessly litigate with the federal government and the environmental groups. ~ Alan Hull, Portland