{"id":134229,"date":"2022-11-30T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134229"},"modified":"2022-11-30T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:08:03","slug":"whale-wars-and-lobster-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134229","title":{"rendered":"Whale Wars and Lobster Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-134230 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chas-w-morgan-300x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chas-w-morgan-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/chas-w-morgan.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>US Whaling Ship Chas. W Morgan <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because of a cascading series of remarkable decisions by multinational environmental organizations, Maine&#8217;s renowned lobster industry is under attack. It all begins because of an event that has never occurred.<\/p>\n<h3>Whole Foods upsets Maine politicians with decision to stop selling lobster<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Matthew Sedacca<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whole Foods\u2019 decision to stop selling Maine lobster has been cheered by environmental groups, but made politicians steaming mad.<\/p>\n<p>The high-end grocery giant took lobster from the Gulf of Maine off the menu at hundreds of its stores nationwide, citing a pair of sustainability organizations yanking their support for the US lobster fishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>The organizations, the Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, said they were concerned about the risks fishing gear posed to the endangered North Atlantic right whales. The whale population is estimated to be around 340.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, revealed last week, has drawn ire from Maine, which boasts the nation\u2019s largest lobster fishing industry.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, Gov. Janet Mills and the state\u2019s four congressional legislators voiced their concern about the impact on local fishermen\u2019s livelihoods and defended the state\u2019s fishermen, saying they\u2019ve been committed to sustainability and protecting right whales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/26\/whole-foods-upsets-maine-over-lobster-ban\/\">NY Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theater of the absurd. Third-party seafood monitoring groups- California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch and London&#8217;s Marine Stewardship Council made changes in sustainability estimates for Maine lobster fisheries. Both organizations cited a recent U.S. court decision indicating equipment used to harvest lobster off Maine <strong><em>may <\/em><\/strong>put North American Right whales at risk. That a whale incident has never happened in the 150-year history of the fishery is completely immaterial to the finding. Of course Woke Foods ran with it, Whale Lives Matter. More so than lobstermen and their families. <\/p>\n<p>The dire situation of the Right whale may be explained by its name- it was the right whale to hunt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Whaling Ship Chas. W Morgan Because of a cascading series of remarkable decisions by multinational &hellip; <a title=\"Whale Wars and Lobster Follies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134229\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whale Wars and Lobster Follies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[598,97,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get-woke","category-its-science","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}