Maine’s lobster fishers caught up in fierce fight with conservationists over entangled whales

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales are dying in alarming numbers after getting caught in lobster trap ropes

A fierce fight is being waged in the Gulf of Maine between lobster fishers desperate to maintain their way of life and conservationists who argue that the waters are a vital haven for the threatened North Atlantic right whale.

Last month, a federal judge in Maine rejected a federal ban on lobstering in a section of the Gulf of Maine that is meant to protect the whales.