November 20, 2020 — The following was released by NOAA Fisheries:
In Effect Through December 5
NOAA Fisheries is triggering a Slow Zone (voluntary vessel speed restriction zone), southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
This Slow Zone was triggered on November 20, 2020, when the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute acoustic monitoring buoy detected right whales in the area.
Mariners, please go around this areas or go slow (10 knots or less) inside this area where right whales have been detected.
Southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey
39 25 N
38 44 N
073 44 W
074 36 W
Other Slow Speed Zones
Southeast of New York City Slow Zone is in effect through December 2
40 41 N
40 01 N
073 03 W
073 55 W
South of Nantucket, MA DMA is in effect through November 30
40 59 N
40 23 N
069 05 W
069 52 W
Active Seasonal Management Areas November 1- April 30
Mandatory speed restrictions of 10 knots or less (50 CFR 224.105) are in effect in the following areas:
- Block Island Sound
- Ports of New York/New Jersey
- Entrance to the Delaware Bay
(Ports of Philadelphia and Wilmington) - Entrance to the Chesapeake Bay
(Ports of Hampton Roads and Baltimore) - Ports of Morehead City and Beaufort, NC
- Within a continuous area 20-nm from shore between Wilmington, North Carolina, to Brunswick, Georgia.