Speeding Toward Extinction: Vessel Strikes Threaten North Atlantic Right Whales

• Main Authors: Pfleger, Mariah, Mustain, Patrick, Valentine Ph.D., Marla, Gee, Emma, Webber, Whitney, Fenty, Brianna
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Oceana; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5120726; https://zenodo.org/record/5120726

Oceana found that most vessels are exceeding speed limits in areas designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only around 360 remain. Oceana’s report analyzes vessel speeds from 2017 to 2020 in speed zones established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin...