BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 6, 2022
A national organization has marked lobster with a red A — for avoid. Seafood Watch, a list compiled by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, classifies seafood by how sustainable it is. The worst are labeled “avoid,” as lobster has just been because lobster fishery practices pose a threat to the endangered right whale. It fails to take into account the work that lobster fishers in Maine are taking to protect the right whale, as well as the fact that there has not been a documented encounter between lobster gear and a right whale in coastal waters in nearly 20 years, a member of the Maine Lobsterman’s Association said.