Whales are showing up in San Francisco Bay. New ship alerts could help protect them
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A new camera system has been developed to help ships and ferries avoid whale strikes in San Francisco Bay, where increased whale presence due to climate change has led to deadly collisions. This technological solution represents a conservation effort to protect whales from ship strike mortality.
This does not solve the underlying climate change drivers bringing whales into the bay, nor does it guarantee the system will be widely adopted or prove fully effective in practice.
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