Military firearms training to resume in critical whale habitat off Vancouver Island
Posted: Jan. 11, 2023 5:30PMMaritime Forces Pacific plans to resume military firearms training in the Salish Sea after a study showed it will have limited acoustic impacts on marine mammals including endangered Southern Resident killer whales.
Whiskey Hotel is an area roughly one kilometre offshore between Sooke and Port Renfrew where the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard train with surface-level firearms. Operations were paused in 2019 to study the impacts of firearm noise on marine mammals, particularly Southern Residents.
The study, led by a marine biologist and senior environmental scientist, has now been released and found the training would have limited behavioural and communication impacts on the mammals, as long as they aren’t spotted within specific safety zones.
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