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Maine politicians ask for time to comply with whale rules

By The Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation and governor say the state’s lobster fishermen need more time to comply with new rules designed to protect rare whales.

The rules are designed to protect North Atlantic right whales, which number less than 340 and are vulnerable to entanglement in fishing gear.

The federal government is using the rules to impose new restrictions on when lobster fishermen can fish and what kinds of gear they can use.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills and the four-member congressional delegation said Wednesday one of the rules, which requires weak points in lobster lines, is essentially impossible for fishermen to comply with at this time.

Relocation of 4,000 beagles by local animal adoption groups underway

By Dana Sukontarak
As thousands of beagles begin to be transferred from a Virginia breeding facility racked with federal violations, a local organization is helping with one of the biggest efforts seen in animal relocation from a single place. Virginia-based Homeward Trails, an organization facilitating rehabilitation and adoption for dogs and cats, is one of several groups working with the Humane Society of the United States to move about 4,000 beagles out of the Envigo facility in Cumberland County, where they were found to be living in unsafe conditions, and into foster or permanent homes over a 60-day span that began early July.
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