US announces new fishing regulations to save endangered whales

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WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden\u0027s administration on Tuesday (Aug 31) announced new commercial fishing restrictions in what it called an effort to save critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from entanglement, a leading cause of their deaths. But conservation groups immediately criticised the

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday announced new commercial fishing restrictions in what it called an effort to save critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from entanglement, a leading cause of their deaths.

Under the rules, which take effect from May 2022, lobster and crab fishers will need to increase the number of traps they lay on the ocean floor per fishing line, in order to decrease the number of lines. "Even if everything works as designed, it still puts stress on an endangered species and stress from all varieties has been shown to reduce the size of right whales, and decrease their reproduction," Brogan said.

 

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