October 31, 2023
A D.C. federal judge on Monday refused to delay the implementation of a D.C. Circuit ruling that scrapped a biological opinion underpinning lobster fishery restrictions, enacted to protect North Atlantic right whales from entanglements in fishing gear.
September 09, 2022
A District of Columbia federal judge has rejected lobster fishers' and the state of Maine's challenges to a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service rule designed to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.
May 17, 2022
A Maine lobster fishers' union on Monday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to reject the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service's effort to dodge a legal challenge to a rule designed to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.
September 27, 2021
Maine lobster fishers on Monday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to force the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to reconsider a rule designed to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, arguing that the agency overestimated the industry's impact on the creatures.