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Fishermen asked to protect right whale
Anchorage Daily News ^ | October 7, 2005 | MARY PEMBERTON

Posted on 10/07/2005 6:49:06 AM PDT by thackney

Alaska's commercial fishing fleet is joining an effort to save the world's most endangered whales.

Until recently, it was believed that the North Pacific right whale was headed toward certain extinction, but more animals than expected were found last summer in the Bering Sea, lending hope that they can be saved.

Even so, there are likely fewer than 100 North Pacific right whales.

The animals share the Bering Sea with the largest commercial fishery in the United States.

Now the Marine Conservation Alliance -- a coalition of commercial fishermen, seafood processors and coastal communities -- is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make mariners more aware of the vulnerable whales. They've come up with a two-page laminated guide suitable for posting on a boat's bridge.

"The population of right whales in the eastern North Pacific is so critical that anything we can do to promote the recovery of this population is urgently needed," said Doug DeMaster, head of NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

The initiative was announced this week at the meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in Anchorage.

Five thousand North Pacific Right Whale Guides will be printed next week and delivered to at least 2,000 boats in the Alaska fishing fleet. Copies will be translated into Russian and perhaps Japanese to provide information to those fishing fleets as well.

The guide describes the whales and includes charts of all sightings since 1941. Recently the whales have been seen at their summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea and off Kodiak Island.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; fishing; rightwhale
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1 posted on 10/07/2005 6:49:07 AM PDT by thackney
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To: RightWhale

posted just for you


2 posted on 10/07/2005 6:49:30 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Left Whales, however, are fair game.........


3 posted on 10/07/2005 6:50:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
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To: Red Badger

Nuke the gay Left Whales for Christ!


4 posted on 10/07/2005 7:00:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Red Badger

I saw a pod of whales down at the wal*mart.


5 posted on 10/07/2005 7:31:21 AM PDT by FreedomFarmer (An assault rifle is used for ilk hunting.)
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To: FreedomFarmer

I bet they were foraging in the chip and dip aisle...........


6 posted on 10/07/2005 7:47:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you settle for...........)
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To: FreedomFarmer

Demon Walmart leviathan, from the depths of
sporting goods I prod thee with my cart.
Yarrrrrrr


7 posted on 10/07/2005 7:52:15 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: tumblindice
Wrong whale:

8 posted on 10/07/2005 7:54:03 AM PDT by Rebelbase ("There are millions of mediocre Americans, and they, too, deserve to be represented in the USSC. -RH)
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To: RightWhale

ping...


9 posted on 10/07/2005 7:55:59 AM PDT by null and void (Bringing Faith to the Doubtful, and Doubt to the Faithful)
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To: Rebelbase

Now that's funny


10 posted on 10/07/2005 8:01:27 AM PDT by TX Bluebonnet
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To: Rebelbase

(removing cap, checking for big hole-in-head.)
Yep, that's a left whale matey. Hugh blow-hole.


11 posted on 10/07/2005 8:02:26 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: thackney

The rightwhale is the right whale.


12 posted on 10/07/2005 8:03:55 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Red Badger; tumblindice

Wal*Mart may never have an official Bikini Team, but they own the Stretch Pants League.


13 posted on 10/07/2005 1:55:28 PM PDT by FreedomFarmer (An assault rifle is used for ilk hunting.)
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