National Marine Fisheries Service Asst. Administrator Chris Oliver today highlighted recent U.S. meetings with Canada to address the conservation and protection of North Atlantic right whales, calling it “critical for both countries to take and sustain additional efforts to reduce right whale mortalities and serious injuries.”
In the recent meetings, Oliver said that the U.S. noted actions being taken to mitigate commercial fishery interactions with Atlantic whales, including the development of measures to reduce entanglement risks, and that the U.S. urged Canada to undertake similar efforts. He further observed that the U.S. industry “cannot carry the full burden of these efforts” and that “[i]t has to be a shared responsibility.”
