SATELLITE

In 2003, the Ocean Alliance plans to use satellite transponders to track the movements of right whales when they leave Peninsula Valdes. The whales are believed to travel from the nursery grounds at the Peninsula to their summer feeding grounds. There has been only one re-sighting of a whale from this Peninsula; that was on a feeding ground off the island of South Georgia in the middle of the southern Atlantic. Satellite tracking will allow OA researchers to follow right whales along their migration routes. In this way we will learn what clues whales may be following to find their feeding grounds