Dominos Coupons (Updated: October 2022).Burger King Coupons (Updated: October 2022).Taco Bell Nutrition (Updated: October 2022).Subway Nutrition (Updated: October 2022).Chick-Fil-A Nutrition (Updated: October 2022).The legislation is unlikely to come up for a vote before the current Congress adjourns in December.Ī poll released late last month by the University of New Hampshire found Golden leading Poliquin, 44-33. “This bill would prohibit federal taxpayer funds from going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which has received nearly $197 million in federal taxpayer dollars since 2001, and demonstrated a lack of adherence to transparency and basic scientific methods,” the lawmakers said. This week, Golden and the rest of Maine’s Congressional Delegation jointly announced that they will introduce the Red Listing Monterey Bay Aquarium Act. “It would close off thousands of miles of prime fishing areas and require lobstermen and women to make significant changes to how they harvest the resource, including the use of ‘ropeless’ fishing gear when it is not technologically or economically viable," the lawmakers wrote.
Chellie Pingree – wrote in a joint press release Friday. “As we have previously expressed to you, if implemented, the 90 % risk reduction target NOAA Fisheries is pursuing in just two years would be a death knell for our nation’s lobster industry,” The lawmakers – Rep. The state’s congressional delegation often unites across party lines to defend the industry. “Why would I do that?” he asked, reasoning that if he gave the money back, the donor would use it to support Seafood Watch’s activities.Ĭommercial lobster fishing is a major industry in Maine. “Maine’s lobstermen deserve better," Poliquin’s campaign said last week, calling on Golden to return the donation.ĭuring a recent debate, Golden responded to the demand that he returns the money. Last month, Seafood Watch told its partners to avoid purchasing lobster caught in the North Atlantic “due to risks to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale and insufficient measures for reducing these risks.” Two major home meal delivery services subsequently pulled the lobster off their menus. Poliquin’s campaign also has highlighted Golden’s acceptance of a $666.67 campaign contribution in 2020 from the executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, home to the conservation group Seafood Watch.
In an email sent on Thursday, Poliquin’s campaign replied: “While Joe Biden's federal government reserved time to let Jared Golden deliver a campaign speech at the forum before the public comment period, Bruce stood with Maine lobstermen and let them speak first.” "Given what we know - and what the data clearly demonstrates - about the low risk of Maine’s lobster fishery relative to other activities in right whale habitat, I cannot comprehend how you can stand idly by and not oppose in the strongest terms a proposal that has the potential to destroy thousands of livelihoods, hundreds of coastal communities, and the economic backbone of our state and the New England region," Golden wrote to the president. But lobster industry officials say the regulations threaten their livelihoods and are based on questionable science.īoth Golden and Poliquin oppose the new regulations, but Poliquin says, “Jared Golden is once again trying to have it both ways: "claiming to support Maine's lobster industry while accepting the endorsements and funding of groups directly opposed to it.”īut in a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Golden urged the administration to roll back the regulations. The new rules, which include limits on lobster traps and lines, are designed to reduce the whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear, which the NOAA considers “one of the greatest threats” to the species. “It would close off thousands of miles of prime fishing areas and require lobstermen and women to make significant changes to how they harvest the resource, including the use of ‘ropeless’ fishing gear when it is not technologically or economically viable”
Chellie Pingree wrote in a joint press release Friday. The new rules, which include limits on lobster traps and lines, are designed to reduce the whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear, which the NOAA considers “one of the greatest threats” to the species Jared Golden and Republican Bruce Poliquin, who once held the seat, are dueling over new regulations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to protect the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale One of the most competitive congressional races in the nation is boiling over on a decidedly local issue: lobsters
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