The U.S. undertakes surveillance for other reasons as well. It's not specifically to administer our program. They have a very active scientific program of tracking each individual animal for other purposes, other than just protecting them in this way. Indeed, the methodologies that they use when they're in our waters are meant to identify all of the animals in a particular aggregation, which isn't information that we need to administer our closure protocols. If we see one whale, we act the same as if there are 10.
On September 27th, 2022. See this statement in context.