BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 15, 2024
Maine’s lobster industry is not expected to face any immediate legal consequences after a fishing rope suspected to originate in the state was found embedded in the tail of a dead right whale. That is because of a measure approved by Congress more than a year ago that prevents new restrictions aimed at protecting right whales from being imposed on lobstermen before 2028. The only previously known case of a whale getting tangled in Maine fishing line occurred in 2004, and that whale survived.