Marine Parks Not Whale Safe Havens

A humpback whale breaches near a sailing vessel during a whale-watching tour aboard the Superfish off the coast of San Francisco, on Aug. 5, 2015. Humpback whales, which can average 50 feet long and weigh 40 tons, have been feeding on anchovies and mackerel offshore. San Francisco Whale Tours offers year-round whale watching; this particular trip went about 6 miles out from the Golden Gate Bridge. Courtesy of Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group/TNS

It’s like waking up one day and having a highway next to your house.”

This is how Dr. Vincent Raoult describes what is happening to sea life as the intrusion of commercial shipping increasingly worsens already stressful marine conditions.