By Fran\u00e7ois Vachon<\/p>\n
The year 2017 was a particularly grim year for right whales. A total of 17 carcasses were discovered in the North Atlantic. Of these, 12 were found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence \u2013 some animals had succumbed to ship strikes, others to entanglements in fishing gear. At the present time, the endangered population numbers approximately 450 individuals, of which only about 100 females are able to reproduce.<\/p>\n
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Dominic LeBlanc had previously announced measures to regulate the snow crab fishery. On March 27, Mr. LeBlanc and his colleague, Marc Garneau, held a press conference in Ottawa to announce additional protection measures to safeguard right whales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Fran\u00e7ois Vachon The year 2017 was a particularly grim year for right whales. A total of 17 carcasses were discovered in the North Atlantic. Of these, 12 were found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence \u2013 some animals had succumbed to ship strikes, others to entanglements in fishing gear. At the present time, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":41492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[488,520,534,545,457,456],"class_list":["post-43535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-endangered-species","tag-entanglement","tag-fishing","tag-migration-en","tag-north-atlantic-right-whale","tag-right-whale"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n