Proceedings of the Workshop to Review and Evaluate Whale Watching Programs and Management Needs, November 14-16, 1988, Monterey, California

摘要

The impetus for this workshop lay in these continuing concerns about the protection of whales, and in the continuing frustration of managers and enforcement agents charged with this task. For the first time, knowledgeable representatives of the industry and of the conservation, management and scientific communities from throughout the United States and Canada were brought together to review whale watching activities and available information on the effects of whale watching on the whales. The goal was then to give direction to the National Marine Fisheries Service in carrying out its responsibility to protect whales from potentially harmful activities associated with whale watching.