With a rise in buying habits fueling a surge in cargo shipments, merchandise is now toted on bigger ships that are in the direct path of whales — unfortunately causing deadly collisions. Why 23 dead whales have washed up on the East Coast since December:
Researchers leave after completing a necropsy on a minke whale in the Rockaway neighborhood of Queens on Feb. 17, 2023.
This winter’s quick succession of stranded whales also coincides with work being done in advance of the installation of roughly a dozen large offshore wind farms from Massachusetts to Virginia. Opponents of offshore wind have said that the sonar used by energy companies to map the ocean floor or the noise from seabed rock sampling might be contributing to the whale deaths, although NOAA and the Marine Mammal Commission say there is no evidence that this is true.The humpback whale found on Feb.
Harry Wallace, chief of the Unkechaug Nation, a Native American tribe from Long Island, was there, too. He performed a burial service after the whale sleuths had finished their work. Sixteen of the whales stranded in the past three months have been humpbacks, nearly half as many as those that washed ashore in all of 2017, a peak year for deaths of both humpbacks and right whales. That year, humpbacks, right whales and minkes were all found to be experiencing what NOAA calls an “unusual mortality event,” which has led to extra resources from the federal government for inquiry into the deaths.
In the past six months, ships that typically traveled only south before returning to international ports have also begun making northbound return trips to retrieve empty cargo containers, said Amanda Kwan, a Port Authority spokesperson. The round-trip routes reduce the number of empty shipping containers that accumulate in port — one of several factors that contributed to last year’s supply-chain havoc — but have also added to shipping traffic up and down the seaboard.
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