10682
Right Whale Recovery & Ship Strike
Right Whale Recovery & Ship Strike
Project
Published / External
10610
Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Division (F/PR2)
Project
In Work
One of the greatest threats to the recovery of the highly depleted North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is collisions with ships (or ship strikes). The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has taken a number of steps to reduce the threat, including issuing a final rule (73 Federal Register 60173, October 2008) that requires vessels >65 feet in length to travel at 10 knots or less in certain times and locations (termed Seasonal Management Areas or SMA) of right whale occurrence.
NMFS Office Of Protected Resources
Silver Springs
MD
Point of Contact
1999
Person
Silber, Greg
Greg.Silber@noaa.gov
(301) 713-2322 x152
29614
Data Set
Automatic Identification System (AIS)
69656
Data Set
North Atlantic Right Whale Active Seasonal Speed Zone Vessel Traffic Statistics
70994
Data Set
North Atlantic Right Whale Seasonal Management Areas
29544
Data Set
Proposed Right Whale Seasonal Speed Zones
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:10682
Angela Collins-Payne
2010-11-24T17:05:10
Jeff Adams
2023-10-02T13:57:12
2017-03-10
NMFS Office Of Protected Resources
OPR
1315 East-West Highway, 13th Floor
Silver Spring
MD
20910
301-713-2332
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/
1001
Public
No
2017-03-10
1 Year
2018-03-10