"WASHINGTON – Environmentalists hoping to save the North Atlantic right whale won a case in federal court in Washington, D.C., Monday, banning walls of fishing net that entangle the species, which has been on the brink of extinction since the 1970s.
Only 400 North Atlantic right whales – and 100 breeding females of the species – remain on the planet today.
The decision by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg speared changes made by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) earlier this year to rules governing New England’s fisheries.
Boasberg ruled the government’s decision in April to allow gillnet fishing gear in two of the whale’s feeding grounds violated the Endangered Species Act, and he restored a ban on the apparatus."
Megan Mineiro reports for Courthouse News Service October 28, 2019.
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