Whale-watching tour operators have called for an immediate halt to a planned sea scallop ranch in Hervey Bay after the developers yesterday confirmed they would start operation in November. Hervey Bay whale-watch industry spokesman Peter Lynch said he was not opposed to a scallop ranch but wanted one of the two trial sites moved out of Platypus Bay on western Fraser Island.
Migaloo, the only documented white humpack whale in the world, is drawing a lot of media attention to the Queensland, Australia coastline.
Pacific Whale Foundation is pleased to offer this website as a means to document the activities of this unusual marine mammal, and to monitor the interactions between the whale and curious humans.
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Pacific Whale Foundation has been following reported sightings of Migaloo, which means "White Fella" in the Aborginal Australian language. Vice President Paul Forestell, who began monitoring Migaloo soon after the whale was first spotted in 1991, helped to coin the name based on advice from an Aboriginal elder.
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Sshhh! The Whales are Courting Below
In his 1996 study of the impact of vessel noise on humpback whales in the whale-watching area of Hervey bay in Queensland, Mr McCauley found the speed of the vessel was the biggest influence on underwater noise likely to bother humpbacks. Some big catamarans were very noisy, particularly as their engines needed to constantly manoeuvre to stop drift while whale-watching.
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Migaloo struggles to hook the ladies
While Migaloo's spectacular white skin has humans amazed, it appears it has not given him too much of a leg-up in the whale dating world, scientists from ...
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