PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 5, 2021
Nonprofit group Mainers Guarding Right Whales launched a new billboard campaign this week to inform tourists that “lobster dinners at seaside harbors come at a steep price to North Atlantic right whales,” according to organization officials. The billboard, which will be up for the rest of the month (two weeks in one location and two in another), is in Massachusetts and asks, “Is your lobster whale-safe?” The North Atlantic right whale is critically endangered. But Maine lobstermen have long contended that not only are they not causing the problems.