A Canadian expert on right whales is calling on officials north of the border to move on more stringent protective measures to safeguard the migration of one of the world's most endangered marine mammals.
Moira Brown, who is also a senior scientist with the New England Aquarium in Boston, says there are clear differences in the regulations governing fishermen on either side of the border.
Her words come as a young North Atlantic right whale remains under close observation off the Florida coast following a dramatic rescue effort in which U.S. wildlife officials disentangled the creature from a potentially deadly web of fishing lines.
The lines potentially shackled the whale for thousands of kilometres from its summer feeding grounds in Atlantic Canada during its trek to southern waters.
"The whales don't know the borders," Brown said.
"In Canada, we really need to start assembling a table that includes all of the known entanglements and start trying to address the problem from our side.
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