April 27, 2021 — Maine’s lobster industry is keeping a wary eye on a consumer boycott launched in Georgia.
Conservation groups there charge that New England’s lobster gear and trap-rope risk entangling and killing endangered right whales, and they said seafood lovers should choose other options.
The right whale has been Georgia’s official “state marine mammal” since 1985.
“The North Atlantic right whale is beloved, and those of us who love the Georgia coast just really celebrate the season when the whales come south to give birth,” said Alice Keyes, the coastal conservation director for an organization called 100 Miles, so-named for Georgia’s hundred-mile shoreline.