Jul.26--THE UN's International Maritime organisation (IMO) has approved amendments to a proposed traffic re-routing and improve ways of tracking whale locations to avoid the unnecessary deaths of whales along the west coast.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to re-route on Santa Barbara Channel, Los Angeles/Long Beach and San Francisco to prevent the fatal ship collisions with migrating whales.

The IMO's Maritime Safety Committee and NOAA aim to re-convene at the end-November with to seek federal adoption of these ship traffic amendments.

(Source:shippingazette)