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WHOI scientist Michael Moore's book is about how consumers play a role and have responsibility for right whale's possible extinction. WHOI scientist wrote a book on right whales’ possible ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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.
Compared to this year's 11 calves, in 2022 there were 15 calves born and in 2021 there were 18. Right whales are not growing as big, which Hamilton said scientists are still trying to understand.
New estimate for endangered right whale population in 2023 shows a slight increase, but scientists fear it could be temporary after a deadly 2024