MAINE PUBLIC • July 5, 2022
The Natural Resources Defense Council and other conservation groups are challenging a seafood watchdog's recertification of the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery as a sustainable resource. The Gulf of Maine's lobster fishery first received the Maine Stewardship Council's sustainability certification in 2013. With recent science showing that severely entangled whales are likely to die within three years, the NRDC says lobstering still poses a mortal risk for the roughly 350 endangered whales left on the planet.