hey king george

remember what happened in star trek iv, the voyage home. be careful. if you get rid of the whales, the earth will be destroyed (and sure, i do believe that could happen. things are DANGEROUSLY balanced these days)

hey king george there are only about 300 right whales left. 300!!! do you know how small a number that is? do you know how dangerously close they are to nonexistence? wtf are you thinking?

Whale-Protection Cuts Sought

NOAA Scales Back Proposed 30-Mile Speed Limit Zones

By David A. Fahrenthold

Washington Post Staff Writer

The Bush administration yesterday proposed scaling back protected zones for endangered whales in the Atlantic Ocean, yielding to cargo companies' concerns about new speed limits for ships in these areas.

The proposal, unveiled yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, could end more than a year of wrangling between federal fisheries scientists and the White House over new measures to protect the North Atlantic right whale. About 300 of the whales remain, and researchers say their tiny population has been reduced further by fatal collisions with large ships.

In July 2006, NOAA announced plans to create 30-nautical-mile buffer zones off of several East Coast ports, in which ships would be required to slow to 10 nautical miles per hour during certain times of the year.

But cargo companies said that this would cause their ships to lose time and burn more fuel, and the proposal was held up for months by the administration.......