After years of back and forth with environmentalists, government officials, and others over alleged harm to the North Atlantic right whale, Maine’s lobstermen are going to court.
An attorney for the fishermen said they are ready for both sides to lay their cards on the table.
“We would like to resolve this as soon as possible,” Kevin Lipson, attorney for the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, told The Epoch Times.
On March 13, 2023, the association, Bean Lobster, the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association, Atwood Lobster, and Bug Catcher, filed suit against the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation.
Visitors view fish being fed in the Kelp Forest tank at The Monterey Bay Aquarium on March 2, 2016, in Monterey, California, USA. (photocritical/Shutterstock)
The fishermen accuse the aquarium of “making false and defamatory statements about Maine lobster fishing practices and for misleading consumers and commercial lobster buyers about the integrity of the Maine lobster harvest.”…