Right Whale Deaths Prompt Call for Canadian Snow Crab Import Ban in U.S.
American environmental groups are urging the United States to ban Canadian snow crab imports when a new U.S. marine mammal protection act comes into force in 2022.
They are using the act as a lever to pressure Canada to do more to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, including demanding new restrictions on the Atlantic region's lucrative lobster fishery.
The act will ban seafood imports from countries without fishing restrictions comparable to marine mammal protections in place for...
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