NOAA Imposes Temporary Restrictions on Lobster Fishing to Protect Northern Right Whales

Summary

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has temporarily restricted lobster trap/pot and anchored gillnet fishing in a 5,312 square kilometer area south of Portland, Maine, for 15 days to protect an aggregation of northern right whales, as required by the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan's implementing regulations.