I guess that 'we all work together' doesn't include paying attention to new research showing that weak rope isn't going to solve the entanglement problem for #rightwhales .
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

Another entangled #rightwhale

...and most recently seen gear-free in Cape Cod Bay in March 2024.

So this must be gear from New England. We're way way over allowable deaths and injuries from US gear for this year. It's April...

fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endan…

Icelandic #whaling - things are getting interesting.

icelandreview.com/politics/uncer…

At some point, perhaps some journalist(s) will start asking the hard questions about what's going on inside NOAA Fisheries that leads to the inaction driving #rightwhales towards #extinction

Not holding my breath

And now this news is out - fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endan…

Yet another dead right whale. A female who had a calf this year. Hoping for the calf's sake that it died instantly.

NOAA Fisheries #rightwhale #brightextinction

#whaling
icelandreview.com/news/minister-…

And Oceans Initiative new term, 'bright extinction' -
the noticeable and documented precipitous decline of a data-rich population toward extinction

NOAA Fisheries gift to the world - a perfect descriptor for data-rich conservation failure.

Study a lot, do bugger all...

Excellent work led by Oceans Initiative

The kicker - Preventing extinction is still possible but will require greater sacrifices on regional ocean use, urban development, and land use practices, than would have been the case had threats been mitigated even a decade earlier.

Waiting to hear the explanations come rolling in about why this new ship isn't a harbinger of the return to more commercial #whaling

Whaling Mother Ship Built in Japan for 1st Time in 73 Years japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/genera…

This is not the stern of a vessel designed for trawling

New, and ice-strengthened too.
#whaling returns...

Kyodo News Digest: March 30, 2024 english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/03/b…

A step to addressing the #enshittification of science
Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Journal editors are resigning en masse: what do these group exits achieve? nature.com/articles/d4158…

The same stages of denial apply to wildlife extinctions

We've worked our way down to number 6 for #rightwhales

Expecting 7 soon.

And a good chance for a reminder that not all humpbacks migrate each year

Something we've known for ~ 30 years.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

Females are less likely to migrate than males.

And if other government agencies learn from NOAA Fisheries and put nothing in writing? Including never emailing to say - use my personal email.

And retaliating against those who refuse?

Maybe then someone will notice that's a problem with secrecy in government

More technophilic #hopium
wired.com/story/coral-re…
There's a 'don't think of an elephant' problem with framing these stories. They always start with 'could save'
Thanks Terry Hughes for flagging it

Please, Sabrina Weiss revisit this in a few years. Did this work?