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MyspaceShipping lanes through the Santa Barbara Channel will soon be narrowed and the southbound lane shifted one nautical mile north, NOAA announced this week. The move, along with similar changes to busy shipping lanes up and down the California coast, was approved by the International Maritime Organization to protect endangered whales — blue, fin, and humpback — from ship strikes. The slow-moving marine mammals’ feeding and migration routes often overlap with current shipping lanes, putting them right in the line of fire. In 2007, four blue whales were hit and killed by ships in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Shipping Lane Shifts on the Way
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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Deep Water soundings would assist captains in avoiding these creatures but again, the shipping companies would have to have those devices installed on all their ships and have them functional; something nearly all shipping companies refuse to install for what they call, "Stupid Fish"!
dou4now (anonymous profile)
January 3, 2013 at 7:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
To protect whales, the shipping lanes are also being moved off LA and SF ports, see
http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/pres... and
http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/protect/s...
hodgmo (anonymous profile)
January 3, 2013 at 8:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)