Whale Watching Worldwide

Acknowledgements:
Nils Bertrand (Sea Blue Safari)
Morocco
Year Number of
whale
watchers
Land‐based whale watching: None
Types of tours: Boat‐based, dedicated, opportunistic
Average adult ticket price: $31
Estimated employment
numbers:
7
Main whale watch season: July to November
AAGR: Number of
operators
Direct
expenditures
Indirect
Expenditures
Total
Expenditure
1991 None N/A None None None None
1994 None N/A None None None None
1998 None N/A None None None None
2008 Minimal N/A Minimal Minimal Minimal Minimal
Capital City: Rabat
There is no formal whale or dolphin watching in Morocco at the time of
research, but local researchers suggest that tourism operators and
promoters have been investigating possibilities for dolphin watching.
Some general cruises around the Straits of Gibraltar from Morocco
encounter cetaceans. Whale watching from Spanish ports is already well
established in the Strait.
Swiss‐based Foundation for Information and Research on Marine
Mammals (firmm), which focuses on marine mammals in the Straits of
Gibraltar with trips from Tarifa, Spain, is planning to establish operations in
Morocco from 2010 that will include some cetacean watching.
Acknowledgements:
Katharina Heyer at firmm and Najih Mohamed at Institut National de Recherche Halieutique
References:
http://www.firmm.org
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