US offshore lobster, crab industry: Pew plan to save whales would backfire...

UNDERCURRENT NEWS • June 19, 2020

The US offshore lobster and Jonah crab industry is responding to the interim plan put forth Thursday by Pew Charitable Trusts for better protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales from getting snared in their vertical trap lines. The Pew strategy, they say, would backfire and lead to more whale deaths.