Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very
reason:
to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information
to New York state
policymakers who develop strategies and management plans
to protect these threatened mammals.This
listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm
to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels
to 10 knots.