FoA Presses Congress to Save Right Whales From Extinction
September 01, 2023
September 01, 2023
DARIEN, Connecticut, Sept. 1 -- Friends of Animals issued the following news release:
Fishing gear entanglement from lobster and Jonah crab fishers and strikes by pleasure boats, charter-fishing boats and commercial vessels traveling too fast are killing so many North Atlantic Right Whales that fewer than 340 remain, including no more than 70 breeding females. Since 2017, there have been 36 dead Right Whales and 78 injured or ill.
That's why it's reprehensibl . . .
Fishing gear entanglement from lobster and Jonah crab fishers and strikes by pleasure boats, charter-fishing boats and commercial vessels traveling too fast are killing so many North Atlantic Right Whales that fewer than 340 remain, including no more than 70 breeding females. Since 2017, there have been 36 dead Right Whales and 78 injured or ill.
That's why it's reprehensibl . . .