Whale Watchers: Buy a Vowel

Napa Valley Register Online | OutdoorsSports

At a recent U.S.-Canada symposium on how to help the population, University of Washington researcher David Bain reported declines in foraging of over 30 percent when boats were present. The impact was greater when boats were closer.

Federal law requires vessels to cut their engines at 400 feet and to stay at least 100 yards away to avoid harassing the whales or hindering their ability to find prey through echolocation.

“I think it would help if we enforced the rules we’ve got,” Bain said.

“Last year we recorded about 800 incidents in the summer … and about 550 were for parking in the path of whales,” Pakenham said.

This isn’t working very well …

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