Sea lanes outside Boston Harbor being shifted to protect whales - AP

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Sea lanes outside Boston Harbor being shifted to protect whales

The Associated Press
Published: June 30, 2007

BOSTON: For the first time in U.S. history, shipping lanes
are being changed to protect wildlife.

The busy shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor will
be narrowed and shifted northward Sunday in an effort to
lower the risk of rare right whales being killed by ships.

Each year, ships from around the world make about 3,500
trips through the lanes stretching from southeast of Cape
Cod into the port of Boston.

Researchers say the slight northeast rotation to the final
stretch of that corridor will take ships outside an area
with a high concentration of North Atlantic right whales,
reducing the ship strike risk by more than 50 percent.

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Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/30/america/NA-GEN-US-Whales-Ship-Strikes.php

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