Mass. lobstermen promote practices as whale safe

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Lobster fisherman Bernie Feeney of Whitman Mass. displays a lobster with green rubber bands on its claws at the Cardinal Medeiros dock in Boston Wednesday July 2 2008. The green bands signify that the trawl lines attached to the traps used to catch t ...
Lobster fisherman Bernie Feeney, of Whitman, Mass., displays a lobster with green rubber bands on its claws at the Cardinal Medeiros dock, in Boston, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The green bands signify that the trawl lines attached to the traps used to catch the lobsters are a type that sink rather than float in the water. The sinking lines are meant to reduce marine line entanglement, the second-leading human cause of endangered right whale deaths. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

(AP) -- New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales.


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