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A ship that strikes a whale can cause the latter serious injury. In the St. Lawrence, fin whales are particularly prone to these types of collisions, which can even be fatal. In order to reduce the risk of incidents between whales and maritime traffic, voluntary speed reduction measures<\/a> (in French) have been in place in the Estuary since 2013. Five years later, a team of researchers reveals that the measures are paying off and that the risk of fatal collisions between fin whales and vessels has decreased by 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ship that strikes a whale can cause the latter serious injury. In the St. Lawrence, fin whales are particularly prone to these types of collisions, which can even be fatal. In order to reduce the risk of incidents between whales and maritime traffic, voluntary speed reduction measures (in French) have been in place in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[485,486,487],"class_list":["post-43047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baleines-en","tag-rorquals-en","tag-whales"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSlowing down, for the whales' sake - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A ship that strikes a whale can cause the latter serious injury. 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