An alliance of US environmental groups is looking to bully Canada into moving harder to save the whales.
The group is preparing to use a provision of the US Fishermen's Protection Act to ask Washington to ban imports of Canadian snow crab unless Ottawa steps up its efforts to save the endangered Atlantic right whales.
Another right whale was found dead in the Atlantic this week, bringing to 16 the number of the endangered mammals that have died off the East Coast of Canada and the US this summer.
Examinations show most of the whales died after being hit by ships or getting tangled in fishing gear -- most of those in the Gulf of St. Lawrence