First published in the MLA Newsletter, January, 2011. Researchers Andy Pershing and Jeff Runge from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and the University of Maine, along with Erin Summers from the Department of Marine Resources, are conducting a research project in response to the suggestion by lobstermen that right whales do not come inshore to eat. The background to this is the whale entanglement issue. The fishing industry argued that it didn’t make sense to make big investments in new...