Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 30, 2011.
A humpback whale feeds in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.(Credit: NOAA)
NOAA and France’s Protected Areas Agency have signed a “sister sanctuary” agreement to support the protection of endangered humpback whales that migrate annually more than 3,000 miles between NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the Massachusetts coast and Agoa Marine Mammal Sanctuary in the Caribbean’s French Antilles.
The agreement will help improve humpback whale recovery in the North Atlantic…
