Right Whales - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2023年4月24日 · 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 ...
North Atlantic Right Whale - Marine Mammal Commission
2024年1月30日 · 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)
North Pacific Right Whale - Marine Mammal Commission
In the same region, a young right whale was found entangled in aquaculture gear in South Korea in February 2015; much of the gear was cut off, but the whale’s fate is unknown. In October 2016, an entangled right whale was reported to have died while being disentangled in Volcano Bay, Hokkaido, Japan.
Whither the North Atlantic Right Whale? – Woods Hole …
2004年11月3日 · 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.
Right Whales – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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.
Right Whale FAQs - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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.
For right whales, a dwindling food source is causing concern
2024年5月10日 · 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 ...
Doing the Right Thing for the Right Whale – Woods Hole …
2006年1月17日 · 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…
Michael Moore - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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 ...
Are offshore wind farms harming whales? - Woods Hole …
2024年5月9日 · 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.