The National Marine Fisheries Service recently approved 7 years of Navy training activities along the Pacific Coast. The action area includes the Southern Residents’ critical inshore habitat of Washington State. The activities permit the Navy to harm, harass, or kill up to 51 of the Southern Resident Orcas, even though there are only 75 of them left now.
Meanwhile, the orcas of the Puget Sound/Salish Sea are being impacted by overwhelming noise from large ships, and from military jet noise that carries up to 100 feet below the surface of the water. Whales depend on hearing subtle sounds underwater in order to feed. The disappearance of their main source of food, the salmon, plus in ability to hear where they are, is starving the orcas in to extinction.
Here is the new study on how jet noise disrupts the orcas’ ability to survive: https://citizensofebeysreserve.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Laurens-Hydrophone-Study-published.pdf
Here is a background article on the ongoing plight of the whales: https://www.outsideonline.com/2420681/end-watch-southern-resident-orcas?%20utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=onsiteshare&fbclid=IwAR1meLI5Ts02LSik3yLh9f5Inlzfg9j8VYi1nGCBw9Rc14YkPNzfgL0SHrk
MANAGE THE DAMAGE 