AIS Right Whale Protection Solution

AIS Right Whale Protection Solution is based on SiiTech AIS Server and SiiTech Web VTS products and allows competent authorities to improve protection for whales.

If fact this solution could be applied for all kinds of marine natural environment and wildlife protection such as from oil spillage, any discharge of a pollutant and ocean dumping. The solution could protect marine parks and key habitats.

The northern right whale, the world’s most endangered large cetacean, inhabits both the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. The right whale was prized by hunters because it occurs near shore, floats when dead, and yields large amounts of high quality whale oil. In 1949, the International Whaling Commission banned commercial harvest of right whales. The U.S. adopted the ban and right whales have now been protected from hunters for more than half a century.

Despite this protection, northern right whale populations have remained at precariously low levels; currently the population in the western North Atlantic consists of approximately 300 animals. Recovery of the population likely is being slowed by human activities, especially fishing and shipping. Collision between ships and whales are the single largest known cause of right whale deaths. A total of 45 right whale deaths were recorded between 1970 and 1990.

The Internet-based online AIS vessel traffic monitoring and management system could:

• Build a right whale habitat guardian zone
• Automatically send reminder to vessels entering into right whale habitats
• Deploy position of last right whale sighting
• Automatically send warning message to vessels approaching the vicinity of whales
• Calculate an Estimated Time of Arrival to the last right whale sighting
• Send safety messages to AIS equipped vessel
• Receive messages from AIS equipped vessel
• Investigate accidents (the unlimited history replay function)
• Create sophisticated reports
• Alert alarms
• Make decisions in operational actions

The solution supports Virtual Earth, Google, MapPoint maps, and BSB nautical charts.

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SiiTech AIS Right Whale Protection Solution in action:

Northeastern Right Whale Habitat Protection Zone