Mainers rage at wokesters that warn lobster fishing hurts whales

Mainers are up in arms over Seafood Watch, a environmental program, warning diners off lobster because they claim the fishing pots can harm or kill endangered right whales.

's Monterey Bay Aquarium, which runs the program, issued its latest edicts over what to eat on Tuesday, ruling that American lobster should be avoided because the lines from the traps used to catch them could entangle the dwindling population of right whales, causing injury or death.

'Seafood Watch recommends to AVOID American lobster caught by trap from the Southern New England stock due to population depletion, risks to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale and insufficient measures for reducing these risks,' according to the September 6 report.

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