SAN FRANCISCO The Center for Biological Diversity sued NOAA Fisheries today to force it to protect endangered Pacific humpback whales from entanglements in California drift gillnets. In the past two fishing seasons an estimated 12 Pacific humpbacks were caught in the California drift gillnet fishery, according to federal reports.
Today the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) announced the release of a joint strategy to protect and promote the recovery of North Atlantic right whales while responsibly developing offshore wind energy.
Researchers are working to discover where southern right whales go to feed over summer after coming to Australian shores to breed and calve during winter.