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Nov. 7, 2006 - Today on Maritime Noon on CBC Radio, Jerry Conway of Can. Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans reported concern in the Bay of Fundy about a pod of 50 RIGHT WHALES that are still present from the area of Point Lepreau and Grand Manan Island. Conway said that usually most right whales leave Fundy in September, and he guesses? that lots of plankton in the water explains the continued late presence of the whales. He mentioned that one right whale got caught in a weir (when?) near or at Campobello Island, but was released within a couple of hours of getting into the weir. DFO issued a press release last week to shippers and communities -- there is concern about the fact that the lobster season will start in a week or so? -- DFO is asking lobster fishers not to set their traps when right whales are nearby, or even to wait in some areas until the whales have migrated away. Conway is hoping the whales will leave within a week or two. He also said that new regulations along the U.S. East Coast are costing fishermen up to $14 million because of mandatory new break-away lines and ?floating lines? Conway was interviewed by phone in Boston where he was at a meeting on right whales. ------------- Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ----------------------
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