MLPA Effort Kills Blue Whale: Fish reporter Dan Bacher writes that the blue whale that washed ashore in Fort Bragg earlier this week was in fact killed by private contractors mapping the sea for the controversial North Coast implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act. The contractors’ boat apparently struck the 72-foot whale — a female that had recently given
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I believe that would be irony defined, almost.
Hmmm. Who was on wheel watch. This is similar to the coast guard buoy tender which ran into the buoy and sank.
Alas us hoomans try so hard.