Scientists of New England respect the model who predicts that the right whale will be the next pop up

In recent years, efforts to protect the population of endangered North Atlantic Right Whale include slowing down ships in the known whale zone to avoid killing ships and encouraging fishing staff to use ropeless gear to prevent them from getting involved.

But where the whales collect, changes in it are challenging some efforts.

Now scientists at the Main and New England Aquarium University in Boston are working together to improve their modeling to guess where the whales will be at any time.

“North Atlantic Right Whales greatly use the atmosphere of the ocean, an associate research scientist at New England Aquarium in Boston, CBC New Brearswick, and so it is really difficult to take them out all the time.” shift,

“And so such models are actually important to fill those data gaps when we do not look at the water.”

Ross is the lead authors of the study called “Northern Atlantic Right Whale density surface models include hunting areas,” Which was published in the latest version of the research journal endangered species research.

A description of research on the US National Marine Fisheries Service website states that only 370 endangered whales remain in the world. Among them, there are about 70 women of reproductive age – 10 years and more.

Ross said that whales are going to various fields to be suited to a changing ocean, so the model should be able to guess where the new feeding houses are also located.

“Then we can send the teams out to go in search of a whale and have the ability to find out where they are going and puts on protection measures before further imperfections,” he said.

Trekking zoplankton

The modeling focuses on the types of small zoplankton that feed whales, mainly Calnoid Coppods. Ross and other scientists went back through previous studies, given that scientists estimated that the whale needs to be swallowed per day, to guess that the whale needs to travel to the whale based on sufficient food sources.

This ends with this very broad image of where we can suffer in the northwestern Atlantic.– Camily Ross

Ross said that the programs of Zoplankton samples have been going on for decades, which is helpful in his studies. The research team then uses statistical algorithms for areas not covered by existing zoplakton studies to fill in gaps.

“So we end up with this very broad image, where the East Western Atlantic may fall prey,” Ross said.

There is space for improvement, he said, and new studies will be prepared as they arise to update their models further.

“If we have some type of food representation that they are leaving, we have a better shot to predict accurately, where they can show,” he said.

The models are only good as the underlying data, Ross said.

“So we need to continue teams in the field that can see these animals and collect data that can then inform the model, especially with a change in climate where we know that these animals cannot live in the same pattern that they are.”

Funny Beckar and Marine Program Director Matt Abbott said that research was important with the Conservation Council of New Breanswick.

“Such a study may provide better information to the decision -making to work with the shipping industry, fisheries and cooperation with others, to limit our effects, and in some ways, in the context of entangles and ship attacks, hopefully finish some of those effects on the right whale,” Abbut said.

“The population (is) is so low that individuals count, especially breeding women.”

He said that it has become increasingly rare to see the right whale in the Gulf of Fani within the last 15 years.

He said, “We used to have concentrations in the Gulf of Phani for the last decade, where the ecology of the Gulf, wildlife in the Gulf was not meeting their needs,” he said. “And so they had to go somewhere else to see it.”