BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 9, 2022
Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s congressional delegation blasted the California group that “red-listed” lobster in a Friday letter that accused it of a “baseless smear” and demanded the designation be overturned. The letter aggressively defended the state’s biggest fishery and perhaps its most culturally important industry after lobsters landed this week on the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Seafood Watch” red list of fisheries to avoid, citing risks that lobstering poses to endangered North Atlantic right whales. Some retailers have stopped offering lobster in response.