Blue whales spotted off East Timor in record numbers ‘extremely hungry’ | ChrisBarrett_
From outside the two shipping containers he has converted into a beach house east of Dili, Jose Ramos-Horta has for years watched whales swim close to the shore.
It is the deployment of local fishermen in dugout wooden canoes, however, that has been key to confirming the channel as a globally significant blue whale migration route. “We still don’t know how big this population is,” Double said. “We know that in the past it was targeted by whalers, particularly by Soviet whalers.
Edyvane, who is also president of East Timor’s national marine tourism body Assosiasaun Turizmu Maritima, said many of the animals were underweight.
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