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Fishermen study whale entanglements through reverse engineering |
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Bar Harbor — The Maine Lobstermen’s Association has scheduled a series of meetings — one in each of the state’s seven lobster zones — to discuss current research on interactions between lobster gear and endangered whales.
The meetings will include an overview on reverse engineering techniques, scar data and experimental rope research that has been conducted by the Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction, in conjunction with the MLA. In addition, the MLA — in collaboration with Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute — is seeking feedback on a new computer modeling tool designed to forecast the risk of Maine lobster gear entangling right whales. Read the complete story from Village Soup.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
