WMTW-TV8 • September 10, 2022
Maine lobstermen and their elected leaders are fighting back over two setbacks this week -- one in court and one in the marketplace -- that could threaten their livelihood. At a rally in Portland's Old Port on Friday, they protested a federal judge's ruling allowing the National Marine Fisheries Service, a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmopsheric Association (NOAA) to impose limits on where and how lobstermen fish in order to protect endangered North Atlantic Right Whales.