Drivers have long known that slowing down on the highway means getting more miles to the gallon. Now airlines are trying it, too — adding a few minutes to flights to save millions on fuel. Southwest Airlines projects it can … Continue reading WHALES: Drivers Do It! Pilots Do It? Will it save $$$ and Whales if Ship Captains Do It? Are they doing it 10 years later??
The Cape Codder reports, “There have been many more right whales than usual this year,” noted Nathalie Jaquet, director of the Right Whale Aerial Survey at the Provincetown Center For Coastal Studies. “We’ve identified at least 120 whales. That’s out … Continue reading WHALES: Opinion – Right Whale Congregation – Is It Really a Mystery?
3/6/21 The article below was written many years ago when LNG developments in Passamaquoddy Bay were threatening the Northern Right Whale population that summered in this area. The effort to stop the LNG developments was successful but little has changed … Continue reading WHALES: Looking back at the LNG threat to the Northern Right Whale – 2007. Has anything changed?
Whale Inhabitants – The Whale Louse & Delilah Imagine having these guys crawling over your head. Whale lice like this were on Delilah a female right whale that was struck by a ship and ended up on a beach at … Continue reading WHALES: Whale Inhabitants – The Whale Louse & Delilah
With dwindling numbers due to snags in lobster traps and collisions with ships, the right whale is looking for a way to make a comeback BY TOM CHENEY; PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICK HAWKINS SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Oct. 29, 2018, 1:44 p.m. From 800 …
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Another old post from 2007 – Scientists listen to endangered whales By Russ Bynum, Associated SAVANNAH, Ga. — Beneath the ocean, microphones listen around the clock for the mooing calls of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an eavesdropping experiment …
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The following post from 2006 provides an interesting history of the New England Aquarium and Canadian Whale Institute in their continuing efforts to save the North Atlantic Right whale. I think it’s worth repeating. Art MacKay ******************************** By Mark …
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There are a couple of problems with this article. Firstly, 15 days in the field does not a season make. One would hope that whale watch companies from New Brunswick, Maine and Nova Scotia are contributing their sightings and that …
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Continue reading LOOKING BACK: Right whale sightings still on the decline in Bay of Fundy – 2015
Right Whale at Head Harbour Lighthouse. Danielle Dion photo. ************************************************ 16 years ago, the battle against LNG development at Eastport, Maine required proof that Right Whales were common at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. Memories From 2006 Ever …
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Crab fishermen to test ropeless fishing to help save endangered whales A publication from 2018. Does anyone know how this worked out? Is it being used at all today? Art MacKay *************************** Idea once considered crazy could eliminate the entanglements …
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Continue reading WHALES: Did ropeless fish traps really help save endangered whales?
Another species of krill is a keystone here along our north Atlantic coast. And they too will be moving … but north … taking other important species like Right Whales along with them. Art MacKay ********************************************* Antarctic krill: Key …
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This whole article gives a brilliant portrait of life one hundred years ago, but the whale tale was particularly revealing as it spoke to the continued pressure right whales have suffered along our Gulf of Maine coast for hundred of years.
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Posted on January 26, 2016 To the attention of The Honorable Hunter Tootoo, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard – Art MacKay In a press release dated January 26, 2016, NOAA has expanded its Right Whale “critical …
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And Here’s the Drone Video of The Gloucester Right Whale 2015 On November 29, 2015, a rare North Atlantic right whale visited Bass Rocks, along the coast of Gloucester, MA. It spent about an hour and a half swimming very … Continue reading WHALES: The Right Whales off Gloucester 2015- Watch this drone video
Help our North Atlantic Right Whales. Download, print and post this poster from NOAA. PDF Version: rwsign_version__12_with_email Continue reading WHALES : Help Our North Atlantic Right Whales! Print and post!
Source: Population of North Atlantic right whales continues its downward trajectory – New England Aquarium Population of North Atlantic right whales continues its downward trajectory Newly released estimate for critically endangered species is lowest number in nearly 20 years Catalog #2420 swims … Continue reading Population of North Atlantic right whales continues its downward trajectory – New England Aquarium
The following 2013 report from Yale speaks to possible changes in the North Atlantic that are influencing the distribution of North Atlantic Right Whales. These changes continued in 2015 and beyond into 2021 with summer population shifts from the Bay … Continue reading WHALES: The Missing Whales – A Report that Came True!
Memories From 2006. Ever since LNG Carpetbaggers Smith (Quoddy Bay LNG) and Girdis (Downeast LNG) decided to favour Passamaquoddy Bay with 2 LNG terminals and the promise of a huge LNG tanker virtually every day, there has been an ongoing …
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We have received 2 calls from DFO about the article on the Right Whale Recovery Implementation Team. Our interpretation is supplied as a comment to the original article. We might not have gotten it right so we are reserving this …
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Updated 2021 The Sierra Club of Canada and other concerned professionals are asking Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn to reconsider his decisions to dismiss the North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery Implementation Team, a coalition that provides …
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Continue reading WHALES: Looking Back – DFO Harpoons Endangered Right Whale Recovery Team?
Whale rescue program faces funding cuts Provincetown Banner, USA – Mar 05, 2008 “Our federal government should be using every tool at its disposal to protect the remaining right whales, rather than making drastic cuts in a tremendously … This … Continue reading WHALES: LOOKING BACK – The Worst Possible News for Right Whales 2008
At a recent marine mammal conference, it was demonstrated how the use of technology is enhancing whale research. During a 6-week-period, a right whale mother and her calf were documented 2 times in the Bay of Fundy. LOOKING BACK TO … Continue reading RIGHT WHALE: Interesting ideas from savethewhales.org
The battle continues as scientists and legislators continue to try to bring rules to bear that will protect the endangered Atlantic right whale. So far, industry has been fighting these efforts. The lobster fishing industry will need to absorb the … Continue reading LO0KING BACK: 2008 – The battle to protect right whales continues
LOOK WHO’S HERE! North Atlantic right whale #3520, Millipede, and her gloriously healthy three-month old calf caused quite a stir when they were spotted by our aerial survey team in Cape Cod Bay on March 3, a month earlier than … Continue reading WHALES: New Right Whale Calf – March 2021
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