Canada ponders banning lobster gear to save whales
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 18, 2009
By Randy Boswell, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 18, 2009
Canadian fisheries officials may follow the U.S. in banning a common lobster-trapping system that's been implicated in life-threatening entanglements of the endangered North Atlantic right whale, Canwest News Service has learned.
"It's definitely on our radar," said Harvey Millar, a senior official with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans in New Brunswick ... Complete article
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