Posted on 02/05/2023 3:07:32 PM PST by Libloather
Environmental groups that have led litigation targeting the lobster fishing industry have been heavily funded by various liberal dark money groups that don't disclose their individual donors, a Fox News Digital review of tax filings found.
The organizations - the Center For Biological Diversity, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and Defenders Of Wildlife - first filed a joint federal lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 2018, arguing a rule issued by the agency years earlier failed to properly protect the endangered North Atlantic right whales from lobster fishing equipment. In April 2020, a federal judge ruled in favor of the groups, ordering the NMFS to issue tighter restrictions.
"Right whales have been getting tangled up and killed in lobster gear for far too long," Kristen Monsell, the oceans program litigation director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said at the time. "This decision sends a clear signal that federal officials must protect these desperately endangered animals from more painful and deadly entanglements before it’s too late."
As a result of the decision, the Biden administration moved forward with new regulations on lobster fishing equipment in May 2021. The coalition of environmental groups then filed another lawsuit challenging the new rule and, in July 2022, again received a favorable judgment from a federal court. CLF senior attorney Arica Fuller applauded the ruling, saying it made clear that "fishery managers must do more to protect" right whales.
However, as a result of the litigation and tighter rules, Maine lawmakers and business leaders have argued that thousands of lobster fishing jobs are at risk. The updated NMFS restrictions stated that fixed gear fisheries like the Maine lobster fishery must reduce their risk to whales by a staggering 98%. The first restrictions were rolled out in May and more restrictions are planned...
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All “green” groups are backed by dark money, just like all anti racist groups, all feminist groups etc. their goal is not to eradicate whatever they claim to be fighting for, but rather instituting straight up communism.
I wonder what the odds are that the dark money is George Soros?
They’re working on a vegan substitute. Bugs have families, too.
Dark money is just another way of saying China and billionaires.
“thousands of lobster fishing jobs are at risk”
If they think anyone in this current administration gives a shit about those jobs being lost, they’re sadly mistaken.
Someone needs to explain why they have standing to sue.
It’s like liberal groups always have standing and conservatives ever do.
Environmental Groups = Modify America
Power grab
Sadly I think you’re right.
The level of concern politicians have is directly proportional to your political value to them (money and/or votes).
If you have no value, “who the fu#$ are you” to them?
But... If your name is Bill Gates, why they will pass laws on your behest, remember that crap years past, “piracy isn’t a victimless crime?”
The politician, and especially the career politician like a McCain, Pelosi, Bush, Clinton, McConnell, Biden... they are almost all for sale to the highest bidder.
Yes, they whore themselves out at the expense of our once great country, and it’s citizens.
I loathe them for it.
Oh boy. I do wish these guys would try a physical confrontation with the lobstermen. If you have to go to war and can’t get Gurkhas or Sikhs, you won’t be too far behind if you can get a dozen passed off lobsterman to back you up.
“Bugs” was what we called lobster when I was hangin’ and workin’ on fishing boats.
From what I have read no whales have been entangled in Maine lobster fishing gear in many, many years, but they are washing up on shore in NJ and NY - 10 in the last couple of months - from injuries from boats and largely from offshore wind power activity. The wind power biz has killed hundreds of thousands of golden eagles and other birds in the west and is now working on whales.
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