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Maine fisherman finds military rocket entangled in lobster trap
Here’s something you don’t hear about every day. A couple of lobstermen find a military rocket stuck in their traps. That’s what happened to Captain Cameron Pease of Cushing on Monday afternoon. He, his stern man, and his dog were aboard his boat, the Beverly E, when Pease found something tangled up in his trawler’s rope. He pulled it up, cleaned it off, not expecting to find a five-foot rocket, weighing about 150 pounds. Pease contacted a local warden who then contacted the State Police Bomb Squad to detonate it. Video, photos, >click to read< 15:05
Right whale found entangled in Canadian lobster fishing gear in U.S. waters
A right whale found entangled in lobster fishing gear in waters off the southern United States was disentangled by U.S. marine mammal rescue responders last weekend. An investigation by U.S. officials and Fisheries and Oceans Canada has determined the gear was from Lobster Fishing Area 33 in Southern Nova Scotia, according to a DFO release. The adult whale is identified officially as North Atlantic right whale 1218 and known as Argo. According to the release, it is the first entanglement connected to Canada’s lobster fishery in five years. The release said the harvester reported the lost gear to DFO. >click to read< 17:58