North Atlantic right whales – which can weigh as much as 70 tons – pay a high price for dragging hundreds of pounds of rope and fishing gear for thousands of miles for days or months, sometimes years, according to a study published today in the journal “Current Biology.”
Lobster-gear entanglements are stunting the growth of the endangered species, the study concluded.
Researchers from NOAA, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, New England Aquarium in Boston and Oregon State University analyzed photographs from aerial surveys and drones to determine that right whales are exhibiting the stunted growth due mostly to entanglement and that females appear to be producing smaller calves.
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Questions linger regarding offshore wind’s economic, environmental impact in the US
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Beyond the Biden administration’s sunny outlook on prospects for a new U.S. offshore wind power industry, concerns among federal government experts continue to crop up about how building ocean turbine arrays could affect the fishing industry and the protection of endangered whales.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued its final record of decision on 11 May to permit Vineyard Wind, the 800-megawatt project off southern New England that would be the first truly utility-scale development in U.S. waters.
So far, the only offshore wind operating in the country is at two pilot projects: the five-turbine, 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island, and the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, which involves twin turbines with 12-megawatt total capacity. With nearly three decades of offshore wind experience in Europe, companies based there are exporting thei