# Whale Alert - How Does Whale Alert Work? By [Jaden](https://paragraph.com/@jaden) · 2023-11-24 --- [Whale alert](https://coinlaunch.space/influencers/whale-alert/) is a service that provides instant notifications as soon as there is a large movement of tokens in the crypto market. This allows traders to anticipate price movements before they happen. These systems monitor blockchain transactions and wallets for large amounts of cryptocurrency. They also identify patterns in the buying and selling of these currencies. **Real-time Alerts** -------------------- Across the maze of inland waters between Washington and British Columbia, Kersti Muul sends alerts from her whale group chat. She hopes to marshal the charisma of Bigg’s orcas, as they’re known locally, into awareness of their plight: depleted salmon runs, vessel noise interfering with their hunting and collisions with boats and ships. The app provides mariners with a user-friendly tool directly on their tablet or iPhone that displays whale “safety zones” and allows them to report any whale sightings. This information is transmitted to agencies on both the East and West coasts, reducing whale ship strikes. WRAS also alerts pilots and shipmasters to areas of elevated collision risk in the real-time. This information enables them to undertake adaptive mitigation measures such as slowing down or changing course. These efforts can reduce deadly vessel strikes. The application is free for all mariners, including those on cruise ships and state ferries. The app is funded by Orsted, the world’s largest wind power company. **Reporting of Sightings** -------------------------- In order for the system to work, people need to report their sightings of whales. This information is gathered from a variety of sources, including acoustic buoys and gliders, tidal energy survey vessels, cruise ship pilots and protected species observers, and local whale watchers and community members. These reports are used to create a risk profile that highlights areas where whales and shipping vessels overlap. This helps to reduce the number of strikes, which is the primary cause of whale mortality. Captain Kalvoy was juggling multiple tasks on the bridge of the container ship when he received a warning that critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales had been sighted in his area. The alert appeared on his smartphone as he navigated through Whidbey Island and reduced his speed to keep from running into them. By using a combination of whale tracking, satellite positioning and data-sharing tools, real-time whale alerts help protect ships and whales alike. **Adaptive Mitigation** ----------------------- In order to mitigate the impact of human activities on whales and other marine life, we need to know where they are. This requires reliable at-sea detection of marine mammals, either visual detections made by eMMOs scanning the ocean surface or audiovisual detections from passive acoustic monitoring (PAM). Both methods have recognized weaknesses and limitations: visual detections are only effective in daylight and rely on an observer’s ability to scan large areas for animals; PAM is only effective when animal vocalizations can be heard and are not masked by vessel or background noise. The Oceans-Based Climate Solutions Act invests in innovative new techniques that could improve whale alert performance by providing more accurate information about whale movements, enabling adaptive mitigation strategies. These approaches could help balance socio-economic impacts with whale entanglement risk by dynamically defining mitigation zones based on fine scale information of whale population density and fishery production. Similarly, the bill invests in solutions to reduce underwater noise from vessels that interferes with whale communication, hunting, and navigation. **Regulatory Compliance** ------------------------- In the crypto world, whale alerts track the movements of large cryptocurrency holders. They do this by monitoring blockchain transactions and wallets that are known to have a large investment in cryptocurrency. These movements can trigger price changes in the market. Vessels must comply with NMFS regulations that prohibit herding, chasing, or separating marine mammals from their groups. They also must avoid buzzing, hovering, landing, taking off, and taxiing near marine mammals on land or in the water as they may disturb them. Vessel strikes are the #1 killer of Right Whales, and Blue Whales worldwide. Using multi-disciplinary research and crowdsourcing, whale alert highlights "high risk" areas where whale aggregations and commercial shipping vessels intersect. This helps reduce the frequency of deadly ship strike incidents. The system also enables the NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries to inform vessel managers in real time about sightings in critical fishing and shipping areas. It also helps prevent whale entanglements in Dungeness crab gear. --- *Originally published on [Jaden](https://paragraph.com/@jaden/whale-alert-how-does-whale-alert-work)*