Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 working on issues of active sonar and whale mortality.
2 And in general, anthropogenic noise is the cause of whale
3 deaths, and also the largest -- working on the same time
4 another issue, which is the largest killer of whales in
5 the United States, which is ship strikes.
6 So that's my cultural background, and I'd just like
7 to say that human beings don't really understand the way
8 that acoustic sound is so important to whales in general.
9 And the orcas here are already -- have reached their
10 saturation point with noise from all different sources,
11 and making Haro Straight into a larger super highway may
12 be the end of them.
13 But I'd also like to say something I don't think
14 anybody else may have mentioned yet, which is the fact
15 that increased ships will have a devastating effect on
16 humpback and greys, which are coming into the Puget Sound
17 and the Salish Sea more every year.
18 As I say, this is the biggest issue now confronting
19 whales, especially on the East Coast in all the shipping
20 lanes. Thank you.
21 GRAHAM CRAWBUCK: My name is Graham Crawbuck.
22 I'm 16 years, and I'm a student at Spring Street
23 International High School on Friday Harbor.
24 I intern at the Friday Harbor Labs in the sea grass
25 lab. And I am concerned for the sea grass population
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