U.S. judge says feds are failing to protect endangered right whales from lobster gear entanglement

Erica Fuller is an attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation, one of the groups that brought the lawsuit in the case against the government and the Maine Lobstermen’s Association. She said the ruling will likely shorten the government’s 10-year timeframe for reducing risk even further.

But she notes that Boasberg is asking the parties to propose remedies, rather than imposing new fishing restrictions himself.

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