Protect Whales From Ships

Whales are extremely sensitive to human activity in our ocean, especially the increase in global shipping and vessel traffic along U.S. coasts that impacts whale calving grounds, feeding areas and migration routes. Encounters between whales and ships can lead—and have led—to fatal injuries.

The Whale CHARTS (Conservation Habitat Analysis, Research and Technical Strategies) Act would reduce ship strikes by amending NOAA’s near-real-time monitoring and mitigation program for large cetaceans to improve our understanding of the location and extent of baleen and sperm whale migration routes and feeding, mating and calving grounds. This act would promote surveys of understudied migratory whale species and provide funding through an agreement with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for the development of whale detection technologies.

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