Federal fisheries managers and conservation groups raised concerns Tuesday about threats to endangered right whales after two were found dead off the Maine coast and a third was disentangled from fishing gear near Cape Cod. The spate of three incidents reported in a three-day span is renewing the focus on a whale population that has been growing but remains in a precarious position.
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