NEWPORT, R.I. – Federal regulators have voted not to restrict lobster fishing in cod spawning areas in the Gulf of Maine.
The New England Fishery Management Council was considering a proposal to prohibit lobster gear from those areas out of concern over unintentional cod by-catch.
At a meeting in Rhode Island, many lobstermen opposed that idea, arguing that the data being used to justify the motion was unreliable.
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