What boundary? What whale? Whose responsibility? - Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities - page 173

knew where he should be and whom he should be with. The close monitoring also
feeds directly into policy decisions related to status of the southern resident pod
population s. 6
The public nature of Luna's journey reinforced the idea of needing to put Luna
back in his “rightful” place. For example, the website “Reunite Luna” diligently
reported on the happenings of Luna, publicly advocated for his placement back
with L-pod, and amplified this story to the wider world. Numerous posts
documented the happenings of Luna, including what boats he had been mingling
with:
Report from Nootka Sound
Luna has been spending a huge amount of his time with two large boats lately.
Most of his attention has been given to a 130-foot-long landing craft that
hauls supplies and fuel to work camps along the Sound . . . 2005-10-26
When he was making calls to other pods:
LunaLive Stewardship Program detects Luna vocalizing with transient orcas
YUQUOT, BC, Canada - Luna, the solitary killer whale of Nootka Sound,
entertained some guests last night. At 2:41 AM, Allan Muir, a LunaLive
researcher based nearly half-way around the world in Scotland, detected the
calls of a pod of transient orca intermixed with those of Luna. “This is a very
rare event. In over 30 years of studying Orca vocalizations, we've only ever
heard residents and transient vocalizing simultaneously in the same acoustic
space three other times,” said Paul Spong, director of OrcaLab on Hanson
Island. 2005-11-18
And, even, how he is suspected to feel on his birthday:
Luna's Lonely Sixth Birthday
September 19, 2005 marks Luna's sixth birthday, and his fourth year separated
from his pod. Birthdays are supposed to be a time for family celebration. But
the only thing that Luna can celebrate this year is that he made it through
another busy boating season. It hardly seems worth lighting a candle for.
2005-09-19
Members of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation have their own explanations
to describe the relationships to the world they live in. Their observations about
orcas and the marine life date back thousands of years and co-evolve with the
natural environment - the traditional waters of a'aminqas now known as the Nootka
Sound (Drucker, 1951). The contemporary governance mechanisms in place to
“manage” the natural environment, rarely, however, reflect traditional worldviews
and how “science informs policy”.