Sentences with phrase «whale feeding areas»

Right on killer whale travel routes and close to humpback whale feeding areas.

New mapping of blue whale feeding areas off Northern California show that the areas, which include high densities of krill, also overlap with busy San Francisco shipping lanes.

«The Sakhalin Shelf could be the richest gray whale feeding area in the world,» said John Chapman, a co-author who works at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon.

Not exact matches

«We had no idea what they were even feeding on in the Atlantic, but eventually it has became more and more clear that minke whales are the predominant prey source for certain killer whales in our area,» explained Stevens, who published a field guide to whales and dolphins in Atlantic Canada in 2013.

The Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission included the results of the study when assessing a shift in busy shipping lanes off the south coast of Sri Lanka that will reduce the danger to whales in an important feeding area.

In the case of Arctic whales, the changes in sea ice might benefit their populations, at least in the short term: the loss and earlier retreat of sea ice opens up new habitats and, in some areas of the Arctic, has also led to an increase in food production and the length of their feeding season.

The whales may alter diving behavior or temporarily avoid important feeding areas, according to new research.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

At any given time, 150 whale sharks are feeding in the area, so it won't take long to find a few.

By using satellite tags, aerial surveys and photo identification software, Georgia Aquarium and its partners have studied and tracked over 1,000 whale sharks known to visit this area to feed on plankton and fish eggs every summer.

During these months whale shark visit a unique area on the barrier reef, called Gladden Split, to feed on the eggs of thousands of reef fish that comes here to spawn.

Perhaps, the present levels — 26,000 whales, up 6,000 from the estimate of their pre-slaughter levels, had created a shortage of food in their feeding areas.

Each spring we are seeing more humpback whales returning to the area as they migrate back after wintering in Hawaii and Mexico to spend the summer feeding in our area.

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Hervey Bay is recognized as the Whale capital of the world and from late July to early November, humpback whales visit the area to play and feed their young.

[30] However, in February 2009 the WGWAP issued an urgent warning that the number of western gray whales observed in the primary (near shore) feeding area had decreased and the panel called for a»... moratorium on all industrial activities, both maritime and terrestrial, that have the potential to disturb gray whales in summer and autumn on and near their main feeding areas.»

This large - scale agglomeration of juvenile fish species is the main reason why migrating whale sharks visit the area every year, rising from the depths to feed on this abundance of food.

Especially the late August and September trips as this is when we large numbers of Steller sea lions usually return to the area from their remote breeding rookeries, high numbers of sea birds congregate in the area, and humpback whales become more surface active as they feed on small schooling fish.

In the ENP, gray whales migrate between wintering areas off Baja California, Mexico, to summer feeding areas in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas.

The North Island Kayak Four Day Orcas and the Humpbacks Sea Kayaking Adventure concentrates on the areas known to be the primary summer range of Northern Resident Orca (killer whale) population and the summer feeding grounds of an ever increasing number of Humpback Whales.

During the winter pacific gray whales migrate between summer feeding grounds in Alaska and breeding areas in Baja, Mexico, passing through the Santa Barbara Channel.

[69] There are shallow, muddy areas favorable for feeding whales off Shiretoko, such as at Shibetsu, the Notsuke Peninsula, Cape Ochiishi on Nemuro Peninsula, Mutsu Bay, [82] along the Tottori Sand Dunes, in the Suou - nada Sea, and Omura Bay.

The primary killer whale feeding and traveling area is highlighted in green on the individual kayak trip route maps shown below.

«This is a huge problem as the whales use this area as a crucial feeding ground; the sustenance provided by the waters off Sakhalin Island see them through the rest of the year — through migration, breeding and calving,» said Leigh Henry, Senior Policy Officer for WWF.

Before those activities began, observers registered 10 to 15 of the whales feeding in the area.

Now whales have only been seen migrating across the area — not feeding.

Rosneft started preparations for the survey last month near Sakhalin Island even though a small number of western gray whales mothers and calves were feeding in the area.

Some of the most heavily used shipping lanes in and out of ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Francisco Bay run through the migratory paths and feeding areas of endangered whales.

Each winter and spring, their spectacular migration between northern feeding grounds and southern nursery areas offers amazing opportunities for whale watchers along the west coast.

Unusual mammals that can be seen include dugongs, which feed on the sea grass beds in the south of the park, and sperm whales, which travel through the area on their way to calve in the Sangihe Archipelago.

Day 6 & 7: The Big Creek area is a vitally important summer feeding area for humpback whales, Stellar sea lions, porpoises, harbor seals, river otters, and other marine life.

The larger pelagic's including Whale Sharks and Manta Rays are making their annual appearances during this time, to feed on the rich plankton blooms which make this incredibly bio-diverse area so full of life.

Our sea kayaking trips in the San Juan Islands are designed to visit the killer whales favorite feeding, traveling, and play areas.

Although they may get lucky and see them a couple of times over the entire summer, they certainly won't be seeing them on a near - daily basis like we do along the western edge of the San Juan Islands in the prime killer whale hunting and feeding area.

And just a short speedboat journey away are some of the Maldives» most famous marine sites — among them Hanifaru Bay, famed as a phenomenal feeding area for manta rays and whale sharks in certain seasons.

The Long Beach area hosts hundreds of blue whales annually who come to the region to feed on krill.

Despite the killer whales» pattern of more widely ranging hunts in late summer, our one day kayaking tours operate exclusively along the west side of San Juan Island as this remains the primary feeding area and offers us the best statistical chance of finding orca whales in any month.

Whale sharks feed on the tiny bits of plankton and swarm the area where the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico waters combine.

Because experiencing whale sharks is such a popular attraction, only licensed tour operators can bring divers to the area, arranging tours at specific times to get the best chance of spotting the sharks as they come close to the surface to feed.

Conditions permitting, you may like to take a cruise to see the whales and other marine life which feed in this area.

Whales also move nutrients thousands of miles from productive feeding areas at high latitudes to calving areas at lower latitudes.

This whale population, hunted nearly to extinction generations ago, is slowly recovering, with an estimated 450 right whales dividing their time between winter calving areas off the southeastern United States and summer feeding grounds from New England north.

«Whales feed in highly productive and high latitude areas and then they migrate to low productivity, low latitude areas.

An effective way to protect whales and coastal communities offering whale watching is to create sanctuaries — areas that provide safe refuge for whales during critical feeding, breeding and calving times.

Considering the apparent importance of the Gulf of Boothia and Lancaster Sound as summer feeding areas for the eastern Canada - west Greenland bowhead whale population, as indicated by recent IPY results, every effort should be made to maintain the integrity of these ecosystems by limiting additional environmental alterations and human activities within their critical habitat.

Lancaster Sound, Baffin Bay and the Gulf of Boothia were the three main summer feeding areas used by bowhead whales.

In the report, Greenpeace detailed its use of public data to track five years of krill fishing vessel activities around the Western Antarctic Peninsula, the part of the continent that extends up toward South America and is both the major area for the krill fishery and a feeding ground for penguins and whales.

Those levels give the researchers an idea of how much zooplankton is around the area that the whales could feed on.