Humpback Returns to Bahia Banderas

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The SEMARNAT account with a management plan that must be adjusted to the service providers, whose guidelines and specifications is relating to their protection and conservation of its habitat are framed in terms of the Mexican Official Standard NOM-131

SEMARNAT-2010 which stipulates that both in the protected natural areas as in a strip of 2 kilometers from the coast toward the open sea are restricted areas for the observation of these animals, because they are areas where mothers feed and care for their breeding in addition to the forecasts of federal authority, Ecology and Conservation of whales (ECOBAC) chaired by the biologist Astrid Frisch Jordan took place prior to the season a workshop of rescue of entangled whales in that trained and equipment to teams of Manzanillo, San Blas, Rincon de Guaybitos,Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita, La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, with which they are ready for that in the event of a report of whale entangled in fishing nets, met in a safe, efficient, and professional.

A very unusual behavior with all these forecasts, the whale watching season  has had a good start, but it highlights one event in particular by the unusual feature that it is, since the Humpback whales in addition to breed and raise their calves.

They are being fed in the region, a fact disconcerting for scientists.and the reason is that a ton of daily food that they eat during the summer, which includes krill and herring; use it to create a layer of fat that the isolates them from the cold, when they arrive in Banderas Bay,

Obtain the energy necessary for this layer of fat that absorbed little by little; i.e. that they are not hungry, no need to eat any food.

This phenomenon began to be observed during the last season of a sighting in which ECOBAC received various reports of whales feeding on occasions in large groups of up to 30 or more whales, feeding on the surface, working alone or in teams of 2 to 3 whales using Different techniques of hunting such as drag and cornered. In some occasions they feed under the surface and even with the tropical whales (Balaenoptera edeni)

This behavior, has given a very special twist to the sighting of whales, because the people who come to watch whales, get a pleasant surprise by the immensity of the cetaceans that in this change of habit give an extraordinary show.  

Not all news is a good for the whales, because the authority not protected them. Also there are many dangers to reach the waters of Banderas Bay  which goes from entanglement in fishing nets and die of collision With boats that ran roughshod over to cetaceans, especially pups as it is an area of reproduction  because the calves that are born are slow and are below the surface resting by which to exit a fast boat that sails the rammed them in recent years, there have been two hatchlings jostled  risk that increases. Boats moving and reach  humpback whales, If they are not paying attention would be more accidents.

Another problem is the noise pollution, as in all the seas every time there is more noise, and to be animals that communicate by sound, it is of concern to researchers effect that is causing on whales.

With everything and the previously reported, the whale watching is an experience worth living, all in compliance with the standards of security and protection of cetaceans that give this region a very special privilege which makes it unique in the entire world.

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