How one company and News4JAX are helping to save the North Atlantic right whales using a high-tech solution
The critically endangered species has fewer than 350 individuals remaining, including less than 100 breeding females. Now, a company is taking an innovative approach to prevent further losses.Maritime Information Systems, based in Maine, is installing specialized devices to alert vessels of right whale sightings.
“It’s rare, like SpaceX. Only a few other companies in the country actually transmit messages to vessels from shore,” Calouro explained. FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., on March 28, 2018. A federal appeals court has sided with commercial fishermen Friday, June 16, 2023, who say new restrictions aimed at saving the North Atlantic right whale, a vanishing species of whale, could put them out of business. The fishermen and the state of Maine appealed their case of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit after losing in a lower court.