89 vessels broke speed limit designed to protect North Atlantic right whales
1/16/2018
A total of 542 ships were reported for violating the speed limit Transport Canada imposed on part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence last summer to prevent further deaths of endangered North Atlantic right whales. But the vast majority of the cases have been "closed due to insufficient evidence," a department ...
1/15/2018
At least 89 vessels exceeded the speed limit in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the first three weeks after it was imposed last summer to help protect North Atlantic right whales, a document obtained by CBC News shows. It's unclear how many additional vessels violated the speed limit of 10 knots between the ...