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A 2012 analysis of the scarification of right whales over the years 1980 to 2009 showed that 82.9% of all North Atlantic right whales experienced at least one fishing gear entanglement, 59.0% have had more than one such experience, and an average of 15.5% of the population are entangled in fishing gear annually. [50]
Only about 370 right whales remain, so every new calf is critical to the species’ survival, and scientists are always looking to learn more about where the whales go, the stressors and threats ...
The NOAA classifies North American right whales as one of the most endangered species of large whales with a population of only 370 individuals remaining, including 70 reproductively active ...
A larger western population of 100–200 appears to be surviving in the Sea of Okhotsk, but very little is known about this population. Thus, the two northern right whale species are the most endangered of all large whales and two of the most endangered animal species in
The right whales are considered to be the 149th and 150th documented cases in the ongoing North Atlantic right whale Unusual Mortality Event (UME), which includes dead, seriously injured or health ...
Although whales were protected from commercial whaling since 1935, the population still has not fully recovered. [1] In 2011 the population of western North Atlantic right whales was estimated at about 465 whales. [2] Despite recent small growth in population, the North Atlantic right whales remain critically endangered.
Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have seen a slight population increase since last year. The whales swim off Cape Cod in late winter.
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered.. The Northeast Pacific population, which summers in the southeastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, may have no more than 40 animals.