Canada's Resident Killer Whale Management

Please see attached educational brochure regarding Canada’s 2019 Southern Resident Killer Whale management measures. We would greatly appreciate the distribution of this brochure to your members to help increase education and awareness for boating in Canadian waters.

If you can include a one-liner in a newsletter we would greatly appreciate it:

New Interim Management Measures in Canadian Waters for protecting the Southern Resident Killer Whales, please see links below for more details and educational brochure attached

https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/maps-cartes/srkw-ers/index-eng.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/fisheries-oceans/news/2019/05/government-of-canada-outlines-its-2019-plan-for-protecting-southern-resident-killer-whales.html

Additional note: If you have not circulated it already, Be Whale Wise has updated their webpage to reflect both, the US and Canadian management measures, for boating around Orcas. https://www.bewhalewise.org/

We greatly appreciate your wiliness to help spread the word about the Southern Resident Killer Whale Management Measures in Canadian Waters!

Kind regards,

Nicole Stamnes

A/Oceans Protection Plan Senior Compliance Program Officer

Conservation and Protection, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Nicole.Stamnes@dfo-mpo.gc.ca / Tel : (604) 666-2187 / Cel : (604) 754-5949