Ocean Zoning may help killer whales
Scientists in Scotland, Canada and the US have proposed a new method to identify priority areas for whale conservation. The team's findings, published in Animal Conservation, suggest that even small protected areas, identified through feeding behaviour, can benefit highly mobile marine predators such as killer whales.
"Zoning the ocean is a new concept and is rife with human conflict," said Dr Joe Gaydos, science advisor to Puget Sound Partnership and Chief Scientist for the SeaDoc Society. "Science is our most objective tool for balancing species recovery and human needs and work like [lead author] Ashe's is critical if we're going to ask boaters and fishermen to leave important areas for the whales."
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/w-zto121409.php