Do they think we're idiots!

The whale carcasses are boat struck after they’re already floating dead. Com’on Gene, you’re way smarter that this.

FROM FOUR YEARS AGO.....Same thing happening,,,,but we have no plastics in the Atlantic? C'MON MAN! 🙂

A filter-feeding adult humpback draws in nearly 19,000 liters of water and one and a half tonnes of krill each day. “Imagine how much plastic they trap.”

Scientists have a new way to estimate how often ocean animals get tangled in plastic — and it could explain why so many whales are washing up dead​

Aylin Woodward
Apr 17, 2019, 11:31

• An average of about 8 million tons of plastic enters the ocean as pollution annually, though the maximum amount could be closer to 14 million tons.
• Whales and other marine animals can confuse plastic items for food and consume them, or get entangled in plastic nets. This can lead to strangulation and death.
• A new study shows that the amount of plastic in the North Atlantic Ocean has increased dramatically since the 1990s, and the number of plastic entanglements increased 10-fold between 2000 and 2016.

Happening around the world...common denominator???

If it’s clear whales are eating microplastics, says Sarah Nelms, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, a key question becomes: what are microplastics actually doing to these animals?

In her own studies, Nelms has found microplastics in the guts of 50 marine mammals from 10 different species stranded around the coast of the United Kingdom—every animal she and her team examined.

This article is so riddled with flaws it wouldn't get past a fifth grade science class.

Equates ingestion with entanglement?

Found plastics in stranded animals? Correlation equals causation, and no clue how much plastic may be in healthy animals? Nope, must be the plastic.

Plenty more flaws if we want to take the time. Just a pi$$-poor piece of propaganda.

Has anyone seen this ?
Total bulshit !! And you wonder why Green Peace dosn't get involved. It's a "live and let live" thing. You as a fishing community made up of Rec, Commercial fishermen have no chance in Hell to ever get even one of those 16 species as bycatch. You would be in chains before sundown any day.

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NOAA Authorized Incidental Take for Offshore Windmill Farm installation but Fishermen are the problem???

Level B harassment (behavioral disturbance)
• Significant deflection from migratory path
• Temporary threshold shift (TTS)= temporary deafness

Has the potential to disturb a marine mammal by causing disruption of behavioral patterns, including, but not limited to, migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering (Level B harassment) from https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/...PA-ITA-presentation_BOEM-workshop_3.07.17.pdf

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Record numbers of whales are washing ashore. What more will it take to see that we are destroying our marine environment along the east coast.

In a typical year, whale beachings are reported between three and five times per year in New Jersey. There have been 11 in about a three-month span since December. That number is very usual.

In fact, the 11 whale beachings in New Jersey this winter equal the total number of beachings from 2019 through 2022 combined, not including the December beachings. (Does anyone think it's plastics doing this?)

“It seems like every day we have another report of a dead whale floating offshore or landing on one of our beaches,” said New Jersey Senator Anthony Bucco. “How many more dead whales does Governor Murphy need to see before he finally takes action? We need to investigate what’s causing these deaths to learn if it’s something we can easily fixed"

Not a single scientific study has been done to determine the cause of the latest unusual mortality event, or UME as NOAA calls it. I'd say it's because they know that they're killing them.

Cannot get anymore clearer with the "Authorized Take" allotments. Not only Level B harassment, but they actually put an allocation by species. Somebody should send that spreadsheet to Tucker via twitter. (i would but I am not on it).

The Right Whale line should be the non-starter for sure. Some think the population has dropped to the point where extinction is certain, so it's OK for a ~5% loss???

Hello Mud,

I have posted this before and it has yet to be rebuked by anyone that believes this is a natural occurance.

Can someone drinking the Kool aid please explain this one too me? Anyone? Maybe @movetheboat ? I need to know why NOAA gave permission to kill our whales and are now denying it?

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according to NOAA there was no application from the windmill people for incidental kills related to said project....but it does seem that NOAA can and may authorize limited incidental kills as it may be unavoidable. Is that right or wrong?? Beats me!!

Does NOAA Fisheries authorize the death of whales as it relates to offshore wind development?​

No, NOAA Fisheries has not authorized—or proposed to authorize—mortality or serious injury of whales for any wind-related action. Offshore wind developers have not applied for, and NOAA Fisheries has not approved, authorization to kill any marine mammals incidental to any offshore wind activities.

Frequent Questions—Offshore Wind and Whales

Your expert analysis is appreciated in our effort to get to the cause of why the whales are and have been washing up dead. We would welcome what you think the reason is and why. TIA

Oh, I'm sorry. Was that your position piece on the subject?

You know, since the site banned politics I forgot I was dealing with Captain Cut 'n Paste who would just post any nonsense to get a reaction. Sorry I wasted my time pointing out how useless that contribution was.