MarketWatch, from The Wall Street Journal, has a story on the tenth anniversary of the International Maritime Organization’s adoption of re-routed shipping lanes in the Bay of Fundy, a precedent setting initiative achieved through the collaboration of industry, led by Irving Oil, scientists from the New England Aquarium, government, academics and environmental groups for the protection of one of the world’s most endangered whale species, the North Atlantic right whale.
This collaborative model between science and industry proactively approached regulators to re-route the shipping lanes away from the right whales’ feeding grounds and habitat, reducing the risk of vessel collisions with the rare whale species by 90 percent. This marked the first time shipping lanes had been re-routed for the protection of an endangered species, anywhere in the world.
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