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2nd humpback death in 2 weeks worries experts, farmed salmon industry
Megan Thomas - November 30, 2018
Three humpback whale entanglements at B.C. fish farms in recent months, two of which resulted in deaths, have whale researchers and the salmon farming industry concerned. A juvenile humpback died last weekend after it became trapped between the inner and outer containment nets at Greig Seafood's Atrevida salmon farm in Nootka Sound.
The death comes just two weeks after another dead humpback was found stuck in equipment at an empty Marine Harvest Canada fish farm on B.C.'s Central Coast. In that case, the whale became entangled in an anchor support line at a site north of Bella Bella. A third humpback whale was rescued from the same spot in September, but it has not been spotted since, and it's not clear if it survived the injures it suffered.
The cluster of incidents has fish farm operators worried, said Jeremy Dunn, executive director of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association.
"The farmers are quite upset. This is not something that is normal, and they want to take every step they can to ensure this doesn't happen," he said.
More entanglements likely
But whale researchers warn more entanglements are likely because of the growth in the number of humpback whales on the B.C. Coast.
"Three humpbacks entangled in fish farm gear in the last two and a half months. Is this new? Yes, because humpbacks are back in numbers that are unprecedented," said Jackie Hildering, a humpback researcher with the Marine Education and Research Society.
Humpbacks are particularly at risk from fish farm equipment because they do not have bio-sonar like toothed whales, Hildering said. This makes it less likely they will avoid the equipment when they're diving for food. Fish farm industry leaders plan to meet with experts from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) next month to discuss the recent entanglements and work on ways to prevent them, Dunn said.
"The experts are telling us there are significantly more humpback whales in the environment, and our farmers need to learn more about the whales," he said. "If DFO determines that there should be some changes made to the infrastructure of the farms, I think our members will certainly do that."
But Hildering said finding solutions could prove challenging because humpbacks feed on species such as herring and krill that are often plentiful in areas where fish farms are located.
Spinoza commits what we can call ontological optimism.
He identifies conatus the raw striving of being as neutral, and says that in humans it can take the form of adequate thought. But he vastly overestimates how often, and how naturally, this happens.
Worse, he acts as if thinking is the maturation of instinct, when in fact thinking and instinct are often enemies.
Babies don’t think. They scream. Their conatus is undiluted, blind, hormonal, physical. Thinking emerges only later and only in some. Not as a flowering of nature. But as an interruption.
Spinoza confuses the rare emergent form of conscious freedom with the universal biological drive to persist. It’s a category error disguised as metaphysics.
A new adventure begins and this time I decide to make a trip that I had postponed for a long time and that I had not decided to do this time is whale watching.
From the months of June to September, humpback whales arrive from Antarctica to the beaches of Ecuador. They do it for two reasons: reproduction and having their young. They take advantage of the heat of the Ecuadorian waters to migrate…
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