NOAA Identifies Mystery Noise as Minke Whale

Anonymous Cowherd writes "An underwater noise that has long confounded Navy sonar operators turned out to be a call of the minke whale, the Sacramento Bee reports. Scientists at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego made the discovery this fall when they heard the noise during a research expedition and saw a minke whale surfacing. While the story mentions minkes in the North Pacific, here's a sample from an Atlantic minke."

Comments

Will this endanger the whales?

[Simon Field]

Now that whaling ships know what sounds to follow, will the catch be increased?

Or have they known all along, and just not informed the Navy?