Monday, May 19, 2008
Government at Work - The right whales
I don't have anything against the whales; however, there seem to be some inadequacies in this law as it is proposed.
See what you think...
See what you think...
MIKE SECCOMBE reports in the (Martha's) Vineyard Gazette:
"Under draft rules attached to the legislation, any sighting of a right whale would trigger the imposition of a strict, 10-knot speed limit on ships more than 65 feet long, operating within a so-called 'dynamic management area' with a 36-mile radius, for 15 days from the time of the sighting.
A single sighting could lead to the cancellation of high-speed ferry services around the Islands, and play havoc with the schedules of even conventional ferries — which usually run at 12 or 13 knots — for weeks at a time, SSA general manager Wayne Lamson said."
