Whale Migration and Shipping Routes
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Whale Migration and Shipping Routes
Whale Migration and Shipping Routes
This animation displays global commercial shipping lanes and humpback whale migration. The red lines represent heavily traveled shipping lanes. Yellow lines have a moderate amount of ship traffic followed by the green lines which represent the least traveled shipping lanes.QUESTION: What do you notice about the commercial shipping lanes and the migrating humpbacks?ANSWER: The humpbacks migrate right through some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
QUESTION: What do you think are the effects to humpbacks as they migrate through such heavily traveled shipping lanes?ANSWER: (Answers may vary here.) One major effect is that humpbacks are struck by ships.1