 |
         
|
COMMENTS: Humans Try to Make Things Right
NBC was the newscast with the animal closer. Species of the Day was the right whale, the slow-moving, 30-ton, endangered, Atlantic Ocean mammal that has only 400 surviving members. Kerry Sanders joined a NOAA crew of marine biologists off the coast of Georgia. They have discovered three whales that are slowly strangling to death from entanglement in fishing line attached to tracking buoys. NOAA supplied the videotape of one whale being cut free. "Right whales face only one other threat--ship collisions," Sanders told us, so freighters now have to observe speed limits in whale waters. They have "no natural predator--only man."
READER COMMENTS BELOW:
You must be logged in to this website to leave a comment. Please click here to log in so you can participate in the discussion.
