PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • September 19, 2023
Maine’s lobster industry welcomes the federal government’s $82 million investment in the recovery of the North Atlantic right whale because it believes improved research, technology and tracking will prove its fishing gear doesn’t pose a threat to the critically endangered species. The whales, which have dwindled to fewer than 350 in number, are following their food into colder offshore waters as they swim between Cape Cod and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, said Virginia Olsen, the Maine Lobstering Union’s political director. They no longer congregate where Maine lobstermen fish.