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Scientific studies and the results of similar measures on the east coast of the United States seem to indicate that it is, but implementing this measure in the St. Lawrence also has its drawbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to protect North Atlantic right whales, the Canadian government has temporarily reduced speed limits for large vessels in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and its Estuary since August 11. Is reducing the speed of ships in areas heavily frequented by whales an effective and proven means to protect them? Scientific studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":40436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reduced speed limits for ships: an effective measure for protecting whales? - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In order to protect North Atlantic right whales, the Canadian government has temporarily reduced speed limits for large vessels in parts of the Gulf of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/reduced-speed-limits-for-ships-an-effective-measure-for-protecting-whales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reduced speed limits for ships: an effective measure for protecting whales? 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