ROCKPORT — Three days of fisheries-focused seminars, an industry trade show and evening events ending with a Saturday night dinner and dance party all begins Thursday, Feb. 29, when the
NOAA Fisheries has determined that rope removed from an endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead off Martha s Vineyard in January came from Maine fishing gear.
Animal advocates are demanding action after federal officials determined that entanglement in Maine fishing gear contributed to the death of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale that washed up on Martha’s Vineyard last month.
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Back-to-back natural disasters caused significant damage to Maine's coastal infrastructure, leaving some wharf owners to wonder what it will take to rebuild and how they'll pay for it.