<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">My interpretation of the 2ooo number is that is the number in Hawaii area some of whom come from Alaska and doesn't refer to the Humpbacks off our coast.<BR>EUGENE RADDING<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 10/6/09, islandkayaker@earthlink.net <I><islandkayaker@earthlink.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: islandkayaker@earthlink.net <islandkayaker@earthlink.net><BR>Subject: Re: [CINC] U.S. May Remove Humpbacks From List of Endangered Species<BR>To: "Paul Jr. Petrich" <ppetrich39@hotmail..com>, "lisa angle" <langle411@gmail.com>, "channel_islands_ naturalist_corps" <channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org><BR>Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 8:58 PM<BR><BR>
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Yea, writing is confusing in 2nd and 3rd paragraph. You are probably right.<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: "Paul Jr. Petrich" <BR>Sent: Oct 6, 2009 11:40 PM <BR>To: Scott , lisa angle , channel_islands_ naturalist_corps <BR>Subject: RE: [CINC] U.S. May Remove Humpbacks From List of Endangered Species <BR><BR>
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Some confusion here? The North Pacific population now is now 18 to 20 thousand as indicated in the 4th paragraph, up from about 1,400 in the 1960s. Is the 2,000 number supposed to be the number migrating between California and the East pacific tropics?
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:12:03 -0400<BR>From: islandkayaker@earthlink.net<BR>To: langle411@gmail.com; channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org<BR>Subject: Re: [CINC] U.S. May Remove Humpbacks From List of Endangered Species<BR><BR>
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Hmmm... normal Northern Pacific population was at 15,000... current population at 2,000 sure... let's take them off the endangered species list.... Who is the genius promoting taking them off?<BR><BR>Absolute silliness.<BR><BR>=/<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Lisa Angle <BR>Sent: Oct 6, 2009 12:18 AM <BR>To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org <BR>Subject: [CINC] U.S. May Remove Humpbacks From List of Endangered Species <BR><BR>
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<H1>U.S. May Remove Humpbacks From List of Endangered Species</H1>
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<DIV class=ecxheader>The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service may remove the <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" id=ecxKonaLink0 class=ecxkLink href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40533#" rel=nofollow target=_blank></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" color=green><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" class=ecxkLink>humpback <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" class=ecxkLink>whale</A> from its list of endangered species, citing evidence that the species has rebounded from near <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" id=ecxKonaLink1 class=ecxkLink href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40533#" rel=nofollow target=_blank></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" color=green><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" class=ecxkLink>extinction</A>. Since an international ban on their whaling in 1966, populations of the north Pacific humpback have increased about 4.7 percent each year, researchers say. </DIV></DIV></DIV>Largely because of their tendency to frequent coastal waters, and their habitual return to the same regions each year, humpback whales have been exploited by commercial whalers all around the world. Humpbacks were hunted for their oil, meat and whalebone. Most populations were drastically reduced in the early part of the 19th century, leaving only between 5 and 10 per cent of the original stock remaining. In the North Pacific, it is estimated that as many as 15,000 humpbacks existed prior to 1900. <BR>The population was truly decimated to fewer than 1,000 individuals before an international ban on commercial whaling was instituted in 1964.
Today, the North Pacific population which returns to Hawaii in the <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" id=ecxKonaLink2 class=ecxkLink href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40533#" rel=nofollow target=_blank></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" color=green><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" class=ecxkLink>winter</A> months to breed, now numbers approximately 2,000. In spite of their recent strides towards recovery, humpbacks continue to be designated as an endangered species. Only the right whale, another species of baleen whale, is considered more endangered than the humpback in the North Pacific.<BR>Another human activity that poses a serious threat to the humpbacks as well as other species of whales is driftnet fishing.. Driftnets are huge nets made of lightweight nylon which measure between 1..25 to 90
miles in length and 8 and 15 feet in depth. They are left to "drift" in the open ocean for periods of 8 hours or more, hence the name "driftnet". <BR>While driftnets are an effective means of catching their target species, the species they are intended to catch- generally tuna and squid, they are an indiscriminate method of fishing, and tend to entrap anything larger than their mesh size. This includes sea birds, turtles, seals, dolphins, whales and many species of non-target fish which together are known as theby-catch. The majority of the <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" id=ecxKonaLink3 class=ecxkLink href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40533#" rel=nofollow target=_blank></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" color=green><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" class=ecxkLink>animals</A> that become entangled
in driftnets are not able to free themselves and drown. Thousands of whales, dolphins, sea birds and turtles, many of which are endangered, die needlessly in driftnets each year. <BR>Due in large part to the ban, an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 humpbacks now exist in the north Pacific, a sharp increase from the 1960s, when populations had dropped to about 1,400. About 60,000 humpbacks exist globally, according to the Swiss-based International Union for the <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" id=ecxKonaLink4 class=ecxkLink href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40533#" rel=nofollow target=_blank></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" color=green><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" class=ecxkLink>Conservation</A> of Nature. <BR>"Humpbacks by and large are an example of a species that in most places seems to be
doing very well, despite our earlier efforts to exterminate them," said Phillip Clapham, a senior whale biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. must review the status of endangered species whenever there is "significant" new information, and this is the first time the humpback's status has been reviewed since 1999. Some groups object to lifting the endangered status of the humpback, citing climate change and ocean acidification as emerging threats to the species.<BR>Based on information from Yale <A style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" id=ecxKonaLink5 class=ecxkLink href="http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40533#" rel=nofollow target=_blank></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400" color=green><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: green 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400"
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