“The red listing – telling people not to eat lobster – is going to have a trickle-down effect,” Gloucester lobsterman Arthur Sawyer said. “The market is getting influe…
, means consumers should avoid American lobster caught by trap from the Gulf of Maine, Southern New England and Georges Bank stocks.
The Marine Stewardship Council quickly mirrored Monterey Bay Aquarium’s actions by dropping the American lobster from its list of sustainable foods. American lobster is not the only fishery that the aquarium says poses a risk to the North Atlantic right whale. Seafood Watch assessments also found threats from Canadian Jonah, rock and snow crabs, and Atlantic croakers, cod, haddock and pollock, among others.
“They make it sound like we are killing them all of the time but it’s absolutely false,” Sawyer said.red-listing “counterproductive to ongoing effortsIn addition to closing off state waters from Feb. 1 through May 15 and lobstermen using weak ropes, McKiernan said all buoy lines used in the U.S. lobster fishery are required to be marked to reveal geographic origin. Massachusetts’ marking scheme is “more distinctive than any other jurisdiction,” he said.
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