BAR HARBOR — Declining stock, looming federal rules to protect right whales and the court fights against them, how required gear and reporting changes will be paid for – Zone
courtroom coming up. we are featuring beautiful things from the land and the sea and as you see on the first course, we have some butter poached maine lobster. john: and months after that controversial course at a state dinner with french president macron, president biden still getting broiled for unfairly targeting maine s lobster industry with environmental regulations. democratic congressman jared gulden says biden is being hypocritical. he ll make his case next. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we re hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we re providing greater access to investing, with low-cost options to help maximize savings. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future.
prove that the fishery has been responsible for any whale deaths. in the face of the absence of evidence, they have still tried to regulate the fishery to the point as i said before that it would literally shut down the fishery and drive people out of business, it would devastate entire communities along the maine coast. sandra: you look at the impact of the lobster industry in your state, 98 million pounds caught in 2022 alone, that is a $388 million industry. this is a huge part of tourism your state. we were looking at recent polling that showed a majority of tourists come for the lobster, so it has a huge impact. this was a lobsterman talking to jeff flock, a reporter here at fox and fox business about the strain from the regulations, listen. all these factors are working against us. we do a good job to try to conserve our industry and be
the lobster industry. bring in maine congressman jared golden. why do you believe the administration is targeting the lobster industry in your state? well, the first thing i want to point out is that thankfully, because of the work that i put in along with my colleagues from maine down here in congress, the two senators, senator collins and senator king and also congresswoman pengry, we have a six-year freeze on new regulations against the maine lobster industry. four years we have been fighting against very unjust, misguided efforts to regulate the fishery to such a degree it would cause them to go out of business if not collapse the industry itself. sandra: the first couple years of this democratic administration you say that he has unfairly and unjustly been targeting the industry. what sort of regulations have
kevin, has the lobster industry ever recorded a whale death? not once in history in recorded history of the events. in 2004, there was an entanglement involving maine lobster gear, that did not result in injury or death to the northern white whale. it is maine lobster fisherman practices that contributed to sustainability of the lobster fishery and of the northern white whale. lobstermen removed 30,000 miles of rope in the gulf of maine. they limited number of lobster traps, instituted weakened break-away rope that prevent entangled species to break free of the lines. the lobstermen, of their own accord, self-imposed regulation have done a great deal to contribute to the safety of the northern white whale and it