Officials say the changes are needed to deal with the fact that the whales' movements in Canadian waters have become difficult to predict.

The person behind a rope recycling project says it's kept over 12,000 pounds of waste out of the Bay of Fundy and is catching attention from other regions.

Townsend says the first flutes were made more than 2,500 years ago and were often used as courting instruments.

A Florida wildlife conservation team saw the pair seven miles from shore while doing routine aerial surveys of the right whale calving ground.

The study published Thursday in Marine Pollution Bulletin found an average of 137 pieces of plastic litter, dumped or lost fishing gear and other garbage per square kilometre of ocean.

The experimental in-stream turbine at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy was abandoned in Sept. 2018, after OpenHydro declared bankruptcy.

Energy and Mines Minister Derek Mombourquette says the government will issue new power purchase agreements to existing tariff holders in the Bay of Fundy's Minas Basin.

Spokesman Neville Crabbe says about 1,000 salmon escaped from a Cooke Aquaculture site near Deer Island on Aug. 20.

The Halifax Stanfield International Airport reported 53 mm or rain and a peak gust at 69 kilometres per hour.

Coinciding with the birds' gathering is the 19th annual Dorchester Sandpiper Festival celebrating the arrival of the small protected species to the Bay of Fundy.