Recovery Plan
via: Marine Animal Entanglement Response team from the Center for Coastal Studies
via: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Human Impact and Road to Conservation
"The Recovery plan for the north Atlantic right whale," was established officially in 2005 by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service., Office of Protected Resources; it outlined five key objectives:
Objective 1: Significantly reduce sources of human-caused death, injury and disturbance.
Objective 2: Develop demographically-based recovery criteria.
Objective 3: Identify, characterize, protect and monitor important habitats.
Objective 4: Monitor the status and trends of abundance and distribution of the western North Atlantic right whale population.
Objective 5: Coordinate Federal, State, local, international and private efforts to implement the Recovery Plan.
Objective 1 refers to the disturbance of whales through ship collisions, fish gear entanglements or other nets for commercial fishing, or simple disturbance through disentanglement. The hope is to reduce the amount of ship traffic through populated areas, and if whales are spotted ahead of time, releasing information regarding location and area.
Objective 2 and 3 refer to the damage of climate change and the human's actions that affect the whale's environment, and works to combat direct results of our actions, with regards to change in climate.
Objective 5 relays back to previous objectives and correlates the fact that it is only possible through collaborative efforts between government bodies.