Segee, Brian P.2019-09-252019-09-252010-11-022010http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175878"As global whale populations slowly recover from historic hunting that brought numerous species to the brink of extinction, the increasing number of whales killed by collisions with ships threatens to slow or even reverse this recovery in some areas. Along the west coast of the United States, this conflict is most clearly evident in the Santa Barbara Channel, which not only provides essential habitat for numerous whales, including the densest seasonal population of blue whales on the planet, but also serves as the primary formal shipping lane for traffic into and out of the nation’s busiest port complex at the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors (LA/LB). While ship strikes have been implicated in the deaths of blue whales off the California coast since as early as 1980, the incidence of strikes has steadily risen, and in 2007 an unprecedented five blue whales were struck and killed in the Santa Barbara Channel." (p.1)engWith permission of the license/copyright holdernatural resourcesPolitical ethicsEnvironmental ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsGovernance and ethicsResources ethicsArticle