[CPEO-MEF] Sonar and Hawaii whale stranding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: Sonar May Have Caused Whale Stranding

By Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2006

SAN DIEGO — The unusual stranding of 150 melon-headed whales in a 
shallow bay off the island of Kauai in 2004 could have been caused by 
the animals being spooked by the use of sonar by Navy ships, a federal 
agency reported Thursday.

"We can find no other cause for this event — given the fact there are 
many things we don't know," said Teri Rowles, a marine mammal 
veterinarian with the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration.

Still, without more information about the behavior of melon-headed 
whales, their reaction to noise and their location when the ships 
started using sonar, no final conclusion about the cause of the 
stranding can be made, the agency's report said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-me-whales28apr28,1,395863.story?coll=la-news-a_section

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