October 5, 2022

Governor Janet Mills right this moment introduced that she absolutely helps a transfer by Maine’s Congressional Delegation to introduce laws to dam federal taxpayer funds from going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch just lately “Pink Listed” Maine lobster, regardless of no scientific proof that Maine’s lobster trade harms proper whales.

“I absolutely help Senators Collins and King and Representatives Pingree and Golden of their effort to strip Federal funds from the Monterey Bay Aquarium,” stated Governor Mills. “Monterey Bay is jeopardizing the livelihoods of hundreds of Maine folks and a cornerstone of Maine’s economic system with no good proof. In actual fact, Monterey Bay has utterly ignored sound science and info and has confirmed that they don’t seem to be worthy of Federal funding. There have to be penalties for his or her recklessness and their disregard for an trade that’s on the coronary heart of our state and our nation — and it is a good step in that path.”