BAR HARBOR — Maine lobstermen are getting some good news about right whales, but not much.
At a workshop session held in the Bar Harbor Municipal Building Tuesday morning, Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) Executive Director Patrice McCarron told a gathering of about 20 fishermen that the population of endangered Northern right whales — only a few years ago calculated to be less than 300 — now numbers 490 animals and that 22 whale calves were born in 2011.
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