49-foot boat goes down west of Sunset Point, near Sidney, with about 9,800 litres of diesel and oil on board
U.S. Coast Guard and federal fisheries officers responded to a sunken fishing vessel Saturday off San Juan Island in Haro Strait, critical habitat for the endangered southern resident killer whales which were in the area.
The Washington state-based Orca Network, which monitors the orcas in their traditional summer feeding areas in the Salish Sea, said all three pods of the orcas were in the area “short distance south of the spill” early Saturday evening.“The resident pods arrived off South San Juan Island and were heading north toward the spill in the evening, but thankfully turned back south,” said Berta.
The U.S. Coast Guard is co-ordinating with San Juan Island-based Sound Watch and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor the location of the orcas and is ready to keep the orcas away.Because orcas are acoustic animals, NOAA said using loud or annoying sounds is one way to keep whales away from an area contaminated with oil.
NOAA said the southern residents are a small and social population of killer whales, “so an oil spill could have major impacts on the entire population if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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