Another dead whale

[Ol Pedro]

Originally Posted by Pennsy Guy

Pete, I'm with you 1000%We will never get an honest gov't--Local, state or federal...What they want, they will get(money)!!!
We piss 'n moan, bitch and complain, point the finger BUT nothing changes for the good, only change is for the wallet...
To hell with it..."Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead".

When are we going tuna fishing???

Going Crappie fishing in a couple of hours. Hope we are Tuna fishing by mid September.

[SanibelFisher]

I do not think this was posted in here anywhere. If you want a better idea of who is involved in offshore wind. Look at who is Exhibiting to get an idea of who is involved. Look at the speaker list.

This event is happening this week.

https://www.offshorewindus.org/2023ipf/

[hudsonfisherman]

I snipped this from a facebook thread so I cannot vouche for its accuracy but I figured if anyone knew if this really happened it would be someone here. The original poster on FB was Steve....

"Look up post from Jim Lovegren Pt Pl, he arrived late at Hudson Canyon couple of days ago only to see Whale suffering, Splashing its tail in agony, warning Others to Stay Away, as the Sounding Vessel started moving away from it in another direction. This Is Criminal! All for the Love of $$$!"

[Broad Bill]

It wasn't Jim, it was his brother Bill who was on board and took a video on his cell phone. In Jim's own words, what his brother saw was absolutely horrifying. Here's a link to the article. If I can get a copy of the video, I'll post it on the site if that's okay with the owner which will give an indication of where these whale deaths have come from and scratches the surface of the consequences associated with wind farm development and seismic testing. I would say this article and video constitute facts.

https://fisherynation.com/distressed...-survey-vessel

Note, this didn't happen in the Hudson Canyon, it happened on Monday March 20th at 11:30 a.m. on the way to the Hudson Canyon in close proximity to the vessel Go Discovery conducting seismic testing. Based on a two and a half hour steam from the FV Holdfast out of Point who pushed off at 9:00 a.m., this probably occurred very close to the vicinity of the shipping lanes. Put the pieces together. Whale becomes disoriented, flounders and suffers on the surface apparently unable to dive, either dies outright from testing or gets hit by a tanker, washes ashore and our "unbiased" officials from NOAA report it as another vessel strike related whale death. So much for crocodile tears for dying whales and porpoise, these beautiful creatures are being tortured at sea without any regard for their safety but we need to make sure that vessel speed restrictions are put in place and wind farm development and testing at any cost continue. What a crock of s***! NOAA, DOC, DOE (including BOEM) and Orsted knew this was going to happen, saw it coming and created a smoke screen as a diversion.

[Broad Bill]

Another article worth reading.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/4-la...vineyard-wind/

We're in the process of watching "our oceans" being privatized for the benefit of government and a few conglomerates. I'm all for alternate energy for the right reasons but will never be in favor of any solution to any problem if the consequences haven't been fully explored and the associated risks outpace the problems these solutions are supposed to be addressing. And placing America's energy generation needs in the hands of foreign investment, as I've previously commented on, to me makes no sense whatsoever.

[Ol Pedro]

Where's Peta and Sea Shepard while this is going on?

[AndyS]

Reading about the sonar and its effects. 3 years on this ship and many many days at sea, we were "passive" listening 99.99% of the time. We only sent 1 (one) sonar ping from our underwater bow sonar dome that I can remember in 3 years. The one "PING" from our sonar dome was very very loud as I can remember, and I know it gave away our location also.

[Broad Bill]

Andy what we should all be concerned about is the unknown which appears is becoming more known. These projects are right in the middle of the migration path of whales and other mammals as well as all ocean crustaceans and fish that inhabit our local waters. What's being created is essentially an enormous underwater electrical field which no one truly knows the impacts of. As I mentioned, if the magnitude of this project and associated noises, vibrations, sound waves, electrical currents displaces stocks or worse negatively impact reproduction cycles even for a year, fishing as we've known it forever will change and could be permanently damaged. If so, the economic and environmental consequences would be substantial. I'm not trying to be overly dramatic here but we're dealing with something that's never been dealt with before. This is all about saving the planet and the environment and it appears we're putting $$$, politics, power and greed before that exact purpose once again.

[Broad Bill]

I have the full video of the whale referenced in the article but the file format isn't compatible to post on the site. Tragic to see a mammal thrashing about clearly in distress.

[AndrewT]

Originally Posted by Broad Bill

I have the full video of the whale referenced in the article but the file format isn't compatible to post on the site. Tragic to see a mammal thrashing about clearly in distress.

This video needs to be posted on Youtube, Facebook, anywhere and everywhere