Expert Says Feds Should Have Acted More Quickly on Right Whale Migration

Expert Says Feds Should Have Acted More Quickly on Right Whale Migration
A Southern right whale breaches near the shore of Muizenberg Beach in False Bay, Cape Town, on Oct. 11, 2013. Jennifer Bruce/AFP/Getty Images
The Canadian Press
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FREDERICTON—A whale expert says Canadian officials did not respond quickly enough to this year’s migration of North Atlantic right whales and now five of the endangered animals have been found dead.

Laurie Murison, executive director of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station, says while vessel speed limits, fishing restrictions, and other measures are now in place, they should have come sooner.