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 ...

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.

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.

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…

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 19, 2006 · An expedition to search for ancient whale bones in eastern Canada aboard the sailboat Rosita included (left to right) Davis Sanford, an engineering student from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Moira Brown, a scientist at the New England Aquarium (NEAq); Brenna McLeod, a graduate student at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario; Yan …

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.

In addition, Moore works with colleagues to understand the impact of ship strikes on whales. Using the lower jaw of the right whale as a test case, he and a graduate student, Regina Campbell-Malone, modeled the physical and material properties of blunt force collision between right whales and large ships. The project established a better ...

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.