Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full-time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content.

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales ... speed rule sent back to NOAA so that we can find a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WECT) - North Carolina Senator Ted Budd released a statement regarding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) withdrawing their amendment proposal to their North ...

New England Aquarium under NMFS Permit #25739 Nimbus the right whale The report triggered the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue a voluntary slow zone for vessels in ...

NOAA Fisheries on Wednesday announced it is tabling a proposal to strengthen protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales against vessel strikes. For researchers at the New ...

NOAA Fisheries on Wednesday announced it is tabling a proposal to strengthen protections for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales against vessel strikes. The decision was welcomed by Gov.

Don Davis, said in part, “NOAA has a responsibility to work more collaboratively with technology developers to find a solution that protects right whales and preserves access to our state’s ...

(The Center Square) – Withdrawal of an environmental rule by NOAA with an estimated economic ... The North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule, proposed by the National Oceanic ...

A stricter speed limit isn't coming to the waters of the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds off the Georgia coast after all. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA ...

“And we’ve watched whales be killed by speeding boats.” Among those against the proposal was Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who urged the NOAA in a December letter to reconsider the change ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales. By Simon J. Levien The Biden administration on Thursday withdrew a proposal to ...