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Discusses the efforts of the US National Fisheries Service to protect right whales in the Atlantic Ocean by forcing lobstermen to change the type of gear they use. The theory that the whales become entangled in the lines of the lobster traps; The impact on the lobstering industry; Estimated costs of replacing the gear; The likelihood that a compromise over the gear will have to be reached.

Announces the death of five northern right whales, a species in danger of extinction, off the Florida-Georgia coast in early 1996. Animal rights activists linking the deaths to US Navy exercises in the area; Greenpeace spokeswoman Catherine Stewart calling on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to cancel war-game exercises scheduled to take place in that area.