Center for Coastal Studies Via Associated Press
Maine s lobster industry is keeping a wary eye on a consumer boycott launched in the state of Georgia.
Conservation groups there charge that New England s lobster gear and trap-rope risk entangling and killing endangered right whales, and they say seafood lovers should choose other options.
The right whale has been Georgia s official state marine mammal since 1985. The North Atlantic right whale is beloved, and those of us who love the Georgia coast just really celebrate the season when the whales come south to give birth, says Alice Keyes, the coastal conservation director for an organization called 100 Miles, so-named for Georgia s hundred-mile shoreline.