Maine Lobstering Union Testifies At Hearing For RESCUE Whales Act of 2023
In February Representative Raúl Grijalva introduced the “Restoring Effective Science-based Conservation Under Environmental Laws Protecting Whales Act of 2023,” also known as the RESCUE Whales Act. The RESCUE Whales Act was created in response to a provision that Congress had tacked onto a 2022 spending bill to protect lobstermen and allow the U.S. lobster fishery to delay new regulations for six years.
“The language passed into law in the omnibus poses an existential threat to the dwindling North Atlantic right whale population,” Rep. Grijvalva said in a press statement...
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