{"id":3167,"date":"2017-01-10T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2017-01-27T20:45:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T20:45:31","slug":"addressing-the-problem-of-marine-life-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/addressing-the-problem-of-marine-life-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the problem of marine life strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>At the Canadian Wildlife Federation, one of our roles as a national conservation organization is to ensure that everyone going afloat is aware of best practices to apply while in the vicinity of marine mammals.<\/h2>\n<p>While many nations are now realizing the real value of their marine resources, the legislation behind creating marine protected areas is often very prolonged. As a community, we must self-regulate and promote good stewardship when it comes to avoiding collisions with marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of a collision, mariners have an obligation to report this type of incident to the Coast Guard as a safety notice to other mariners as well as to the Ship Strike Database hosted by the International Whaling Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about the importance of reporting collisions with marine mammals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/2017\/01\/06\/addressing-the-problem-of-marine-life-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">in this article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">At the Canadian Wildlife Federation, one of our roles as a national conservation organization is to ensure that everyone going afloat is aware of best practices to apply while in&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636,631],"tags":[620,710,879,619],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-coasts-oceans","category-connect-with-nature","tag-marine-conservation","tag-ocean","tag-ship-strikes","tag-wild-about-sports","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}