Chile: High-tech buoys protect migrating whales
A smart buoy that can "hear" the ocean and monitor climate change is part of a new effort to help endangered whales avoid ship collisions on their journey from Antarctica to the equator.
Read moreA smart buoy that can "hear" the ocean and monitor climate change is part of a new effort to help endangered whales avoid ship collisions on their journey from Antarctica to the equator.
Read moreVessels entering and leaving Puget Sound will be asked to temporarily slow down to reduce underwater noise this fall. Washington state will launch this strategy from British Columbia on a trial basis, in order to help the Pacific Northwest's critically endangered killer whales.
Read moreICS is encouraging the shipping industry to take action to reduce the risk of harm to endangered whale species, saying that significant steps have already been taken by the industry to help protect marine mammals.
Read moreShipping companies received awards for reducing speeds in the 2021 “Protecting Blue Whales & Blue Skies” program. In total, eighteen shipping companies participated, transiting at 10 knots or less in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Southern California region.
Read moreThe Marine Mammal Center and The Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory have announced a collaboration to bring Whale Safe, a technology-based mapping and analysis system to help prevent whale-ship collisions, to the San Francisco Bay Area region.
Read moreFive people died on September 10 in New Zealand after a small charter boat they were on capsized in what could be a collision with a whale.
Read moreMSC announced its decision to adjust course around Sri Lanka to keep away its vessels from endangered blue whales in the area, encouraging other shipping lines as well to take a more southerly route south of the official (TSS) shipping lanes.
Read moreNOAA Fisheries is proposing changes to the North Atlantic right whale vessel speed rule to further reduce the likelihood of lethal vessel collisions.
Read moreCanada published a bulletin to describe vessel requirements for the Protection of the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) in the Waters of Southern British Columbia, 2022, which came into force June 01, 2022. The Interim Order applies to all vessels that are navigating in, on or through specific waters in Southern British Columbia, regardless of the method of propulsion.
Read moreThe Secretariat for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation agreed to move forward with the first step in a two-step process to investigate the US’s failure to uphold its environmental laws to protect North Atlantic right whales from deadly vessel strikes and fishing gear entanglements.
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