Do you know what ocean roadkill is?
A dead, roadkill animal run over by a car on the highway is a sad and gruesome sight that most people have seen. But did you know there is ocean roadkill as well?
Read moreA dead, roadkill animal run over by a car on the highway is a sad and gruesome sight that most people have seen. But did you know there is ocean roadkill as well?
Read moreU.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound introduced a cetacean desk pilot program during a ceremony at Sector Puget Sound. The goal of the four-year pilot program, which is hosted in the Puget Sound Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), is to to safeguard endangered whales and mitigate adverse impacts of maritime vessel traffic on endangered and threatened large cetaceans (whales) in the Salish Sea.
Read moreThe U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has joined Operation Koholā Guardian to reduce risk to humpback whales among the Hawaiian Islands, Jan. 1 through March 31, 2024.
Read moreThe IMO has adopted a new voluntary speed restriction scheme in the North-West Mediterranean Sea to protect local whale populations. This area is also marked on the newly released global whale chart aimed at helping seafarers in planning their voyages to reduce the risk of vessel-whale collisions, Gard highlights.
Read moreThe World Shipping Council (WSC) has released a Whale Chart which offers seafarers critical navigational coordinates and concise graphics to identify routing measures and areas subject to static speed restrictions designed to protect whales and other cetaceans.
Read moreToday, Oceana released a new report finding that most boats are speeding through slow zones designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 340 remain.
Read moreThe 80th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), 3-7 July 2023, agreed to designate a particular sensitive sea area in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (NW Med PSSA) to protect cetaceans from international shipping.
Read moreNYK has been recognized for the company’s participation in the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies vessel speed reduction (VSR) incentive program along the West Coast of North America, a collaborative effort sponsored by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation among others.
Read moreABB today introduced ABB Dynafin, a new concept of propulsion system which enables the user to operate each propulsion fin individually in real time.
Read moreThe IMO Navigation, Communications and Search and Rescue Sub-Committee (NCSR) 10, took place 10 to 19 May 2023 where associated protective measures (APMs) for sea mammals within the particularly sensitive sea area in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (NW Med PSSA) were discussed.
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