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Whale Protection Zone
      10/11/07 04:35 AM

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Ships asked to avoid whale route


The endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is to get extra protection after a safe haven from shipping was set aside off Nova Scotia in Canada.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) ratified a Canadian proposal to designate the 1,800-sq-km zone an "Area to Be Avoided" at a meeting in Denmark.

The voluntary restriction asks ship captains to steer around the area.

Collisions with container ships are seen as a key threat to right whales, thought to number just 400.

The new zone is in the Roseway Basin, south of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Edited by danescombe (05/02/08 01:16 PM)

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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Whale Protection Zone danescombeModerator 10/11/07 04:35 AM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone danescombeModerator   05/02/08 01:37 PM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone geveN   12/28/07 02:14 PM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone HillModerator   10/11/07 09:57 AM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone Hale   10/11/07 04:13 PM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone HillModerator   10/11/07 11:30 PM
. * * Avoiding ship-whale collisions. Hale   11/10/07 02:39 AM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone Gerardo64   10/15/07 08:20 AM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone danescombeModerator   10/11/07 11:59 PM
. * * Re: Whale Protection Zone TheLedgeModerator   10/11/07 05:03 AM


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