Category: right whales

Appeals Court Hands Maine Lobstermen Major Victory in Whale Protection Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) overstepped its authority with a plan for lobstermen to reduce the lines they place in the water by 98 percent within ten years. “It’s a huge win,” eighth-generation lobsterman Jason Joyce of Swans Island, Maine, told…


Maine Lobstermen Face Extinction Threat From Big Wind Corporations, Environmentalists

SWAN’S ISLAND, Maine—For more than 200 years, the Joyce family has weathered storms, the troughs and crests of the economy, and the inherent danger of working on the ocean to draw its living from the sea. They wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’ve always been immersed in this,” eighth-generation lobsterman Jason Joyce told The…