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Coast Guard Criticized For Disturbing Porpoises
posted on May 23, 2010
Washington environmentalist says hovercraft transits feeding grounds
By Larry Pynn, Canwest News Service May 22, 2010
The Canadian Coast Guard is being criticized for routinely roaring its hovercraft through important feeding habitat for harbour porpoises off Point Roberts, Wash., just south of the border with B.C.
The harbour porpoise is a shy marine mammal and a candidate for listing as threatened or endangered by Washington state.
Peter Hamilton, founder of the environmental group Lifeforce and an observer of vessel and marine life interactions off Point Roberts since 1993, says there is no justification for the coast guard's continuing actions.
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Coast Guard Criticized/Vancouver Sun.
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