Whale Migration and Shipping Routes

PresenterPresentation NotesThis animation displays global commercial shipping lanes and humpback whale migration. The red lines represent heavily traveled shipping lanes. Yellow lines have a moderate amount of ship traffic followed by the green lines which represent the least traveled shipping lanes.QUESTION: What do you notice about the commercial shipping lanes and the migrating humpbacks?ANSWER: The humpbacks migrate right through some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

QUESTION: What do you think are the effects to humpbacks as they migrate through such heavily traveled shipping lanes?ANSWER: (Answers may vary here.) One major effect is that humpbacks are struck by ships.

Whale Migration and Shipping Routes