NewsWhore
01-13-2009, 05:20 PM
The official start of the whale watching season is this Thursday, 15 January, and as a new way of welcoming back these huge visitors, five buoys have been installed to record the whales' sounds or "songs", in order to determine the type and number of species that visit Dominican waters.
According to Hoy newspaper, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarena) and six organizations signed the traditional memorandum of understanding that establishes the rules for whale watching in a clear and precise manner.
Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal told reporters that he would act with the full weight of the law against any illegal boat that enters the Marine Mammal Sanctuary, located in the northeast of the Dominican Republic. According to Osvaldo Vasquez of Environmental Consulting and Maritime Techniques, the sanctuary is visited by as many as 14,000 whales each year.
Some whales will be monitored with satellite tracking systems inserted by darts.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)
According to Hoy newspaper, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarena) and six organizations signed the traditional memorandum of understanding that establishes the rules for whale watching in a clear and precise manner.
Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal told reporters that he would act with the full weight of the law against any illegal boat that enters the Marine Mammal Sanctuary, located in the northeast of the Dominican Republic. According to Osvaldo Vasquez of Environmental Consulting and Maritime Techniques, the sanctuary is visited by as many as 14,000 whales each year.
Some whales will be monitored with satellite tracking systems inserted by darts.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)