With over 8 billion humans clogging the planet, we are definitely not an endangered species. Seriously though, I wonder how close the drone(s) got to the whales in order to elicit the fines. I’m not very good at estimating how much is 1,000 feet when approaching a moving object like a whale. Wildlife groups and companies like National Geographic use underwater drones all the time to observe orcas and other large marine mammals and their pictures are definitely closer than 1,000 feet away. I guess they just don’t do it in Canadian waters.