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2crowsonmymantle t1_iy0jiku wrote

I’m from the midcoast of maine and nobody I know that still lives and works there has seen a whale yarned up in their gear since…..1990-something.

Maine commercial fishing/lobstering is incredibly over regulated to start with, I can’t see this as anything but another nail in the coast’s coffin. It’s depressing and sickening. The work fishermen do is dangerous, expensive, and back breaking. This is just more strain and stress.

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Mammoth-Quote-7057 t1_iy2suto wrote

Idk, I dig up and down the coast from Kittery to Calais and just this past summer there was a whale stuck out at Brookings Bay for a few days, it would surface in the same spot to breathe then sink back down, we dig this place alot and for a few days this went on. Lobstermen drop there traps up and down the center of the bay, I'm assuming the whale was tangled up in gear which is why it was stuck in the same spot for days. Of course something else could of tangled it, but if not a lobster trap another piece of fishing gear.

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PinkLemonade2 t1_iy0xe98 wrote

Y'all remember how much lobster we send to China?

Not going to get full tinfoil, but the ulterior motive(s) for our sea bugs is real.

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VinceGchillin t1_iy1zdv8 wrote

Ulterior motives? You mean selling food to people who pay for it? Not everything China does is nefarious bro

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Dorrbrook t1_iy1dnf0 wrote

You mean the lobster China pays money for?

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PinkLemonade2 t1_iy0x2wp wrote

^^^^^^^ facts

It's a political game that is fucking real people right where it counts ------ as usual. 😩

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Hismadnessty t1_iy1gqxw wrote

This isn’t about whales. This is all sponsored by Diamond Offshore Wind, a renewable energy company, to displace fishermen.

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