Last month the Atlantic lobster was put on something called the seafood watch list as an avoid, which is a red listing. Monterey Bay Aquarium: Lobster fishing lines can entangle the endangered North Atlantic right whale. They say they have not had an instant with the right whale in almost two decades. The industry says it's not because of them and there's no documentation showing whale deaths linked to their line. But these rote list traps are bound to be very costly.