AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - More than 2,000 ocean predators spotted off Cape Cod — weeks after feds reopened the waters to commercial fishing
Scientists captured more than 2,000 marine animals from 15 species feeding together at a protected monument off Massachusetts, raising fresh questions about a federal rollback of fishing restrictions just months earlier. A New England Aquarium survey plane flew over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on August 16 and documented a scene researchers […] The post More than 2,000 ocean predators spotted off Cape Cod — weeks after feds reopened the waters to commercial fishing appeared first on American Almanac .
Scientists captured more than 2,000 marine animals from 15 species feeding together at a protected monument off Massachusetts, raising fresh questions about a federal rollback of fishing restrictions just months earlier. A New England Aquarium survey plane flew over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on August 16 and documented a scene researchers called extraordinary: dolphins, whales, whale sharks, and manta rays all congregating near the surface of a nearly 5,000-square-mile ocean preserve roughly 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod. The sheer number of animals, and the presence of several species classified as endangered, landed the survey squarely in the middle of a policy fight that has bounced between…Open