JUST IN: The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is closing an additional 200 square miles off the Mass. coast and isn't taking public comment — a move that frustrates lobstermen already contending with extensive fishing restrictions.
The baleen is visible on a North Atlantic right whale as it feeds on the surface of Cape Cod Bay off the coast of Plymouth.
The federal government will close an additional 200 square miles off the coast of Massachusetts to lobster and Jonah crab fishing in April to protect endangered right whales. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is closing the area on an"emergency" basis, without taking public comment — a move that frustrates lobstermen already contending with extensive fishing restrictions.
Much of the water off Massachusetts is closed to lobstering from February through April, when the whales are feeding in the area. But a"Federal regulators say the high density of fishing lines there now poses an"imminent entanglement threat" to endangered North Atlantic right whales. Any fishermen with traps in the area must now remove them.
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