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Ship speed limit protects Georgia coast whales
The giant, lumbering right whales that winter along Georgia’s coastline will soon be protected by a new federal speed limit on large ships, a victory for environmentalists in a long-running struggle to safeguard the marine mammals. Shippers critical of rule for threatened mammal.
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Tail of a right whale prior to sounding.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
| 11-06-2008
The regulation, which takes effect in December, calls for ships over 65 feet in length to slow to 10 knots in areas within 20 miles of the Eastern seaboard, where the whales congregate.
Environmental groups had asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a 30-mile slow-speed zone, but nevertheless hailed the new regulation.
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