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Orca Network - Sightings Archives - August 2007
Faith (L-57) was one of the approaching whales and there were others behind him. Vocalizations over the hydrophones began in a repeated call and it got louder and louder. The approaching whales stopped and just remaind at the surface. The vocals continued and when the whales turned and moved off to the south - ...
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WWF - Marine-based tourism: Better practices and policies
Souvenirs: ensuring, for example, that ...
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OMI Works Internationally to Protect Whales and Dolphins from Underwater Noise Pollution
We have found that the behavior of humpback whales is significantly changed by the engine noise of approaching boats. This research on engine noise prompted us to focus our ... encouraging consideration of the impact of ocean noise on living marine resources. http://awionline.org/whales/Noise/IONC/UN_OLOS_ Res_Nov_2005.htm 2006 February - Dr. Marsha Green and Susan Millward of ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Whale Rescue | Latest Disentanglement - right whale, Yellowfin
Previous Disentanglements PLEASE REPORT WHALE ENTAGLEMENTS TO 1-800-900-3622 Humpback whales disentangled - 7/16/2006 Two humpback whales were disentangled off the New England coast this weekend. One ... vessel Nancy Foster that was conducting research with the National Marine Sanctuary). Disentanglement team approaching Meteor by inflatable with R/V Ibis in background. PCCS image taken under NOAA ...
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Ecobeetle's Endangered Species - Killer Whale - Conservation Information,Pictures,Facts,Links,Books
Johnstone Strait and southern Vancouver Island and in Washington with mixed results. The validity of reported behavioural shifts in response to approaching boats is questioned by some researchers. Nonetheless, southern whales appear to spend less time resting. Killer Whale Distribution Map For more information: Baird, R.W. 2001. Status of Killer Whales ...
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Toxic chemicals used as flame retardants are rapidly building up in the
bodies of people and wildlife around the world
American women and their babies that could harm developing ... up through the food web, peaking in top predators such as whales, dolphins, birds of prey and humans. "This will be social experiment ... DDT did. Even polar bears near the North Pole and sperm whales feeding in deep ocean waters are contaminated with them. The ...
ecolivingcenter.com
HSUS House of Horrors
Workshop on Whale Killing Methods. In essence, the paper argued that whales, even after assaults with harpoons, guns and electric lances, could be sentient - and ... time possibly approaching those of even the prolonged dive cycle." (From "Scientific Considerations for Opposing the Killing of Whales of Ethical Grounds," Humane Society International, 1995) Back to Whales / Marine Mammals / ...
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Acoustics Monitoring Program
For this reason, they became a ... the right whale and blue whale (Leatherwood et al. 1976). Fin whales have long slender bodies that are primarily dark gray or brown ... ventral sides of the belly, flukes, and flippers are white. Fin whales can be identified individually by their natural marks and scars. ...
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Save the Whales
On one occasion 30 resident orcas swimming together detected 3 transients approaching them in a narrow channel. The residents entered a bay, lined up abreast ... • Poems About Whales Whale Folklore Threats to Whales Whale Species Dolphins & Porpoises Other Marine Mammals Captivity - Marine Mammals Whalewatching Guidelines Whale Research Save The Whales Newsletters Whales On Wheels ...
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North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
NMFS published regulations [pdf] in 1997 that prohibit vessels from approaching within 500 yards of right whales. Conservation Efforts Right whales were first protected by the 1931 Convention for the Regulation of ... (E. glacialis) [pdf] (73 FR 12024 [pdf]). Federal law [pdf] and Massachusetts state law prohibit approaching a right whale closer than 500 yards unless permitted by NMFS or one of ...
www.nmfs.noaa.gov
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