Week two was a great week. We wrapped up our work at the end and tried to do some things that we did at the start of our journey. On the first day we had gathered some trash at the beach because that is what Cam and I had done on the first day. We had chosen to do this again to be able to compare and contrast the trash that we would have picked up on the first day of week one to the first day of week two. On the second day, cam and I had gone to this race around the world, sailboat convention, where all of the sailboats are working on ocean, pollution, and how to study and help the issue. We had tried to go fishing again to see if we can be able to have our luck change and gather some new information about fish. That day struck out and we did not gather the fish that we wanted to. Day three we had been able to meet with a doctor/scientist at Woods Hole oceanographic Institute. He talk to us about right whales and how they are getting entangled in fishing gear. That was a wonderful day,...
Today we went to WHOI again and this time we meet with Dr Moore. He had talked to us about right whales and the danger of the engagement in fishing lines and rope. He gave Cam and I a good understanding of rope vs line. Line is when something is being used like when fishermen’s are using long lines to catch fish, the moment that it breaks it become rope because it doesn’t have a purpose anymore. It isn’t being used for something so therefore it becomes dope rather than line. Dr Moore is afraid that the right whale population will go extinct by 2048. This is due to the fact that the number of female or cow whales are diminishing rapidly leading to no more reproduction. The female whales are to small and they’re to skinny where they won’t be matter with and there is nothing that they can do to help it. These ropes are tangling them up causing them to not be able to travel and get enough food to be able to thrive mate with males. Overall we learned so much about right whales and the ...
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