Rules protect whales from collisions BOSTON (AP) - Ship captains along the East Coast are subject to new regulations aimed at preventing collisions with endangered right whales. Starting Wednesday, large ships entering waters off Cape Cod and the Florida-Georgia state line will have to transmit their vessels' position. A Virginia computer center will then transmit to the ships the latest information on right whale sightings. An estimated 300 North Atlantic right whales remain. Collisions with ships account for nearly half of all known right whale deaths. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560070319-490> Return To Top <#TOP> | The Environment <#category18> N.Y. Harbor oysters make comeback NEW YORK (AP) - Oysters, which flourished for centuries in New York Harbor before pollution and dredging wiped them out, have a place to grow anew - an underwater mound of shells near the Statue of Liberty. But don't look for them on any menus just yet. A police boat sluiced 260 tons of fossilized shells off a barge into 16 feet of water Thursday in the latest project to restore the harbor. If all goes according to plan, the shells - dredged from a 1,000-year-old oyster bed in Chesapeake Bay - will form a hard-surface reef that will attract new oyster larvae, the plankton and algae on which they thrive. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560068450-45b>
