The Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) commissioner Patrick Keliher, along with fishing organizations in the state has alerted lobstermen to take precautions to prevent entanglements with right whales.
Following a large presence of the mammals being spotted off the state’s southern coast. Keliher said regulators have detected as many as 90 individual whales on the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge off the southern coast of the state.
In a statement, Keliher asked lobstermen to…
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