CRD 05-19 Table 1

CRD 05-19 Table 1. Right, humpback, and fin whales sightings through 2003 in the original and two alternative configurations of the part of the Boston Traffic Separation Scheme which begins due east of Race Point and is aligned first northwest-southeast and then west-east. Original refers to the existing Traffic Separation Scheme (Figure 10), NOS Alt. Refers to alternative routing suggested by NOS², and NMFS Alt. refers to NMFS alternative Traffic Separation Scheme (Figure 11).
	Right whale			Humpback whale			Fin whale
Lanes	Original	NOS Alt	NMFS Alt.	Original	NOS Alt.	NMFS Alt.	Original	NOS Alt.	NMFS Alt.
East-West	221	134	121	227	111	95	225	87	76
North-South³	>>0	5	5	>>0	4	4	>>0	8	8
Total	221+	139	126	227+	115	99	225+	95	84
² NOS Alternative as provided by staff of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary ³ Note that because under the present alignment of the TSS, commercial vessels can move North-South across the breadth of the Georges Bank, all of these vessels have the potential to pass through areas seasonally occupied by large whales. Thus, the potential for vessel interactions, while significantly greater than 0, is not easily calculated

(Modified Jun. 13 2008)