A district judge ruled in favor of Maine’s multimillion-dollar lobster industry and is halting a federal ban that would have limited areas fishermen could harvest.ByShirin Ali | Nov. 15, 2021https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.489.0_en.html#goog_15352791110 seconds of 15 secondsVolume 20%
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- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had scheduled a federal ban on lobstering in a section of the Gulf of Maine to protect right whales.
- The North Atlantic right whale population dropped 8 percent in 2020, marking the lowest number for the species in nearly 20 years.
- A district judge took issue with the statistical modeling NOAA used to project the damage fisherman’s equipment causes to marine life.
A judge ruled in favor of Maine’s multimillion-dollar lobster industry, pushing back on efforts to protect endangered species and limit how much fisherman can capture marine life.
The seafood industryis a huge part of Maine’s economy; in 2018 the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Those whales are important and must be considered.
But in the future, I see a lot of this kind of thing happening ‘we’re more important’ (debatable), and economies put first, kicking extinctions down the road. But it will come for us too eventually, if we think we can live the way we have been in the future.