Whale Detection Technology To Be Revealed at American Boating Congress
May 13, 2025
A 24-foot research vessel will be used to test the latest technologies to detect and protect whales.
A 24-foot research vessel will be used to test the latest technologies to detect and protect whales.
On June 6, the head of the National Marine Manufacturers Association called on Congress to fund research into the real-time technological monitoring of marine mammals, as a way to make sure 63,000 boaters from Massachusetts to Florida continue to have access to the Atlantic Ocean.
Fiery debates about the cause of whale deaths erupted along the mid-Atlantic coast in recent months after more than a half dozen humpback and sperm whales washed up on New York and New Jersey shores and near the Maryland-Virginia border.
Owners of boats as small as 35 feet along the U.S. East Coast say NOAA Fisheries is unfairly targeting them with a proposed rule that would dramatically expand the areas designated to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, and that would require boaters to slow to 10 knots or less.
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