A war is take place in the frigid weewee off the seacoast of Alaska . seedcase of killer whales are stalking fisherman to slip the fish they are catching , meaning they get all the reward with none of the effort .
This is not an unusual behavior for the large sea mammal ( it has been witnessedsince the 1960s ) and there are composition ofsperm heavyweight doing the same . But fishermen are claiming that the attack are getting worse and more frequent .
The pods are eating holibut and black cod get by longline fishing and the hulk have set out to agnise the gravy boat . According to John Moran , aNOAA fishery biologist , killer whale are smart enough to have intercourse a gravy holder from another just by the sound and even make out when they are get down the fishing gear into the water .
A few thousand hulk know in the waters of the Bering Strait so their impact can be meaning . In a tarradiddle reported by theAlaska Dispatch News , one luckless fisherman , Robert Hanson , captain of theFV Oracle , spent a day fishing near the edge of the designated fishing piss before a pod of 50 whale set about fall out his boat . They stalk him for two days .
" The seedpod get over me 30 knot north of the edge and 35 miles west ( while ) I drifted for 18 hour up there with no machinery running and they just sat with me , " he wrote to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council . " It ’s gotten all out of control . "
Another prison term , he lost over 5,400 kilo ( about 12,000 pound ) of halibut and spend 18,200 litre ( 4,000 gallons ) of fuel to escape the voracious carnivore . Other fishermen have also pointed out how grampus whales are also bringing their young near the boats not only to fee but also to discover how to get the most out of this quick - service repast .
Fighting off killer whales and sperm cell whale is quite difficult . fisherman have tried decoy buoys and even sullen metal euphony to try and confuse the stubborn cetaceans , to little or no avail . In the caseful of sperm whales , a successful approach started by Southeast Alaska Sperm Whale Avoidance Project ( SEASWAP ) was to tag and track , via orbiter , where the hulk are .
Fishermen can just lumber onto theSEASWAPwebsite to see where the whales are and which areas to avoid . A similar approach could help oneself dealing with grampus whales as well . This will keep the fishermen well-chosen and the orcas safe .
Unless they work it out and they begin to ostracize the GPS - tagged member of the pods .
[ H / T : Alaska Dispatch News ]
