WASHINGTON The Ship Strike Reduction Act of 2008 would establish speed
limits for specified vessels that travel through the migratory
paths of North Atlantic right whales. Right whales migrate from the
southern U.S. to the Gulf of Maine each summer.
Snowe said the bill, which now goes to the full Senate, will
ensure that the lobster industry doesn't have to bear the entire
responsibility for protecting the right whale when ship strikes are
the No. 1 cause of human-induced right whale deaths.
Lobstermen are being forced to buy new rope for their traps to
comply with new rules aimed at protecting the whales.
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