Apr 24, 2023 · For the North Atlantic right whale to recover, NOAA determined that less than one whale per year can be seriously injured or killed. Data shows that North Atlantic right whale mortalities from fishing entanglement continue to occur at levels five times higher than the species can withstand. Furthermore, unless sub-lethal trauma from ...

Jan 10, 2025 · The North Atlantic right whale distribution seems to be shifting, yet questions remain about the permanency of the shift and the location of significant portions of the population at any given time. Unusual Mortality Event: 2017 to Present. Annual North Atlantic Right Whale Mortalities by Cause of Death, 2017-2024 (NOAA)

Sep 12, 2022 · The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) was driven nearly to extinction by commercial whaling in the 19th century. After beginning to recover in the first half of the 20 th century, most of the remaining whales were killed by illegal Soviet whaling in the 1960s.

WHOI also produced a special report: Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale. Download it here; A new book by Michael Moore, veterinarian, and marine scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution examines the plight and future of the North Atlantic right whale that draws on Moore's 40 years of fieldwork to offer possible solutions.

May 10, 2024 · Saving the North Atlantic right whale from extinction has never been easy, but it now may be getting even more difficult due to the depletion of a key food source in the Gulf of Maine. Until the last 20 years, the Gulf’s cool waters and nutrient-rich currents supported a dense reservoir of the whale’s primary prey—a tiny, energy-rich ...

It is a sad irony that we have cataloged individual photographs of the remaining North Atlantic right whales and given each of them unique numbers and sometimes names, yet still know too little about their physiology, behavior, and habitats to take effective steps toward ensuring their survival as a species.

Jan 17, 2006 · The situation is urgent: Seventy years after whaling was banned, the North Atlantic right whale population has not recovered. Only 300 to 350 remain, and the species is headed toward extinction. The threats remain dire: Right whales are frequently struck and killed by ships or become fatally entangled in fishing…

Nov 3, 2004 · A critical factor in the North Atlantic right whale’s population decline is human-induced mortality, caused by collisions with ships and by entanglement in fishing gear. Unlike the recovering Southern Ocean right whale population, which travel in far less populated and trafficked waters, North Atlantic right whales are exposed to gauntlets.

May 9, 2024 · The East Coast is in the midst of a seven-year whale die-off that caused the agency to declare an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) for humpbacks in 2016 and for minke whales and North Atlantic right whales in 2017. Large numbers of whale deaths happened before wind development efforts got underway.

May 7, 2019 · An adult female North Atlantic right whale feeds in Cape Cod Bay in early April 2019, accompanied by a young calf. Image obtained non-invasively from an unmanned drone flying >100ft above the whale, authorized by Research Permit #21371 issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service.