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Shipping lanes off Calif tweaked to protect whales | Essentials

Shipping lanes off Calif tweaked to protect whales

Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Pectoral Fin Close-up 29 July 2010 baleen whale rorqual species with barnacles and water drops and droplets
Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Pectoral Fin Close-up 29 July 2010 baleen whale rorqual species with barnacles and water drops and droplets by mikebaird
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LOS ANGELES-- Ship traffic off the California coastline will be re-routed under brand-new rules created to shield slow-moving endangered whales from ship collisions. The International Maritime Organization has actually authorized vessel lane changes on strategies to San Francisco Bay and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and in the Santa Barbara Channel. The modifications take effect next year after the Coast Guard undergoes the rulemaking procedure. Migrating blue, fin and humpback whales are prone to ship strikes because they are frequently lured to the California coastline by plentiful krill. All three species are endangered. There are thought to be about 2,000 blue whales, 2,000 fin whales and 2,500 humpbacks in the northeast Pacific. In 2010, five whales died in ship wrecks in the location outside San Francisco Bay.

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