Ocean management in action: Stellwagen Bank.

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Located at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is one of New England's special ocean habitats. Even before the President's Executive Order established a National Ocean Policy, Stellwagen was doing some ocean use planning of its own. Stellwagen is home to a variety of whale species, including the endangered North Atlantic right whale, of which there are only about 400 left on the planet. It's also a busy passageway for tankers and other large vessels traveling to and from Boston. Using 25 years' worth of whale sighting data, officials found that the shipping lanes used by those vessels also contained the highest concentrations of whales, resulting in collisions...