Judge dismisses case to ban lobster lines, but opens door to future right whale protections

A federal judge may have delivered the legal roadmap to ban lobstermen from using vertical buoy lines in a long-awaited ruling this week. The case centered around concerns that the lines, authorized by the state of Massachusetts, entangle and kill critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. But Judge Indira Talwani dismissed the case because, she wrote, the plaintiff Max Strahan, a controversial whale advocate, had questionable credibility in some instances and failed to prove that he has a personal stake, or standing, in the case, a critical component of the lawsuit. >click to read< 12:37

2 Responses to Judge dismisses case to ban lobster lines, but opens door to future right whale protections

  1. Kurt holmes says:

    Massachusetts lobstermen’s do NOT “kill whales”! A thriving industry disrupted by people trying to create a job for themselves is all this is. We have jumped through hoop after hoop trying to oblige these people that are attacking us. Nothing we do to make an effort to appease them matters they just want more and more until we’re gone. It’s a disgrace. The real problem is shipping traffic and in 10 years when we’re out of business and the whales population is still in decline a sorry from these people that have ruined families will be all we get.

  2. Joel H says:

    Don’t count on it. These people are reprehensible human beings.

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