WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an effort to protect North Atlantic right whales, one of the world's most endangered large whales, the Bush administration is considering speed and routing restrictions for East Coast shipping.

The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to release details by month's end of the first step in the process of issuing the new rules.

Only about 300 right whales exist in U.S. and Canadian waters of the western North Atlantic, the species depleted largely by centuries of commercial whaling ......
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