This year, at least 11 whales are known to have died in ship collisions. This initiative is designed to alert captains to slow their ships down to prevent them from running into whales.
the ship traffic lanes and offering financial incentives to companies that follow NOAA’s request that ships slow down during whale season.
A blue whale between Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of southern California.“Their populations are so suppressed that each animal counts in trying to rebuild those calculations,” he said. “It’s not like you can get struck by a couple ships and learn,” said John Calambokidis, a biologist at Cascadia Research in Olympia, Wash., who has researched this behavior.
But scientists on the West Coast say they’ve been disappointed by efforts to encourage ships to voluntarily slow down. Ships usually travel between 14 and 18 knots per hour along California’s shore. During whale season, which typically lasts from May to November, NOAA recommends that large ships travel no more than 10 knots in areas by the channel.
A humpback whale lifts its fluke out of the water as it begins a dive off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. The Benioff Ocean Initiative plans on providing direct updates to shipping companies on the level of risk to whales in the channel. The looming question, however, is whether this will encourage more companies to slow down.
A trip between the ports of L.A. and Oakland typically takes up to 24 hours, but it’s about 30 hours at reduced speed, said Stanley Kwiaton, general manager of port operations for the West Coast for the Mediterranean Shipping Company, which has participated in the incentive program.
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