wildmanyeah
Crew Member
The most credible scientists of the day say the whales are in distress, their prognosis is poor, and action in the form of reducing physical and acoustic disturbance is needed
Agreed but container traffic though the Salish sea is expected to grow by 300% over the next 15 years. So you can slow down container traffic but the population increase in BC/Canada (the demand) will far out do anything you try to do to mitigate it. Almost all of our ports are seeing major expansion projects https://www.portvancouver.com/development-and-permits/development/centerm-expansion-project/
So then to mitigate acoustic you have to look at the whale watchers and recreational boats. Whale watchers bagging these whales is a MAJOR concern. The whale watching lobby looks like they have managed to keep it down to 200m. So pretty big win for them. I like the idea of the states of banning whale watching on tuesdays, wednesdays and thursdays. Thats 3 full days of being unimpeded.
The science says sports fishing in the JDF is screwed, Endangered puget sound/ Fraser chinook all migrate through there and it's the area where the SRKW do hang out.
Sport Fishing community is going to start to hammer east coast vancouver island stocks, will see how they fair