deep sea creatures washed up on shore meaning

That's a particular threat this winter, when animals that are typically the whales' prey have reportedly come close to shore, NOAA officials say. Overall, experts say that human interactions are a leading factor in whale deaths, through ship strikes or entanglements from ropes and other fishing gear. 'I just want to be unambiguous,' Laws stated, 'there is no information that would support any suggestion that any of the equipment that's being used in support of wind development could directly lead to the death of a whale.' So, what is killing the whales? 'Many of them are used for very short periods of time with a long quiet time in between,' Staaterman said, adding that some of the instruments also produce 'a very narrow cone of sound,' rather than blasting it in all directions. In contrast, she added, the tools used to prepare for offshore wind sites are 'high resolution geophysical sources, and they're typically smaller in the amount of acoustic energy they put into the water column.' So they're very high energy, very loud sources,' Staaterman said. 'Those in oil and gas are called seismic air guns, and they're specifically designed to penetrate kilometers into the seafloor. The kind of equipment being used in the area isn't as problematic as projects such as marine oil and gas exploration, said Erica Staaterman, a bioacoustician at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Center for Marine Acoustics. 'There are no known connections between any of this offshore wind activity and any whale stranding regardless of species,' Benjamin Laws, deputy chief for the permits and conservation division at NOAA Fisheries, said in a briefing call.

National Maine lobster industry wins reprieve but environmentalists say whales will dieīut officials from NOAA and other agencies are pushing back on suggestions that wind farms might somehow be contributing to whale deaths.

Deep sea creatures washed up on shore meaning