Wayward Dolphins Threatened by Celebration
I saw a segment on the news this morning about a dozen wild dolphins that made a wrong turn and ended up in a river in Seabrite, NJ. There are 3 calves with the pack that are mesmerizing residents. Evidently they were following food and didn’t pay attention. The dolphins know where they need to exit to get back to the open sea but are deterred by the noise and vibration of a bridge they must go under. So they keep turning back. The worry is that the Fourth of July approaches and hundreds of boats are set to go up the river to a bay in celebration of the holiday. As one boater said, “They [the dolphins] don’t stand a chance.”
What’s wrong with this picture? I see a ridiculously bad attitude toward nature here. Boaters are willing to mow down a group of stranded dolphins with babies in order to celebrate. American’s are trying to get Canada to quit seal hunting, Japan to quit dolphin and whale hunting, and what to we do but offer another of our hypocritical bad examples.
If I was a Seabrite resident with a boat, I’d simply stay home. Have we finally become an overall mindless, unempathetic, feel good society, because if we have, it’s a good indicator of our overall decline that has nothing to do with politics or economy. It seems we suffer a selfishly bad attitude toward life besides our own . What would you do in this circumstance, stay home or mow down the dolphins?
In the meantime marine specialists are going to try and add predatory type negative vibrations to the water to drive the dolphins out to sea where they can be away from real harm, humans.