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According to a statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released on Wednesday, Dec. 17, the two North Atlantic right whales were spotted swimming during an aerial ...
Two endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted on Dec. 9 by an aerial survey team around 50 miles southeast of Nantucket. ... NOAA entanglement response teams did not mount a response but ...
An entangled North Atlantic right whale, a critically endangered species, was spotted about 50 miles south of Block Island on Tuesday.. NOAA Fisheries biologists are monitoring the whale and ...
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.
The rules were enacted to specifically protect the North Atlantic right whale, of which about only 350 remain. Marine-gear entanglements and ship strikes are the top human causes of right whale deaths. On July 1, the shipping lanes in and out of Boston Harbor were rotated to avoid an area with a high concentration of the right whales. [38]
A second major cause of morbidity and mortality in the North Atlantic right whale is entanglement in plastic fishing gear. Right whales ingest plankton with wide-open mouths, risking entanglement in any rope or net fixed in the water column. Rope wraps around their upper jaws, flippers and tails. Some are able to escape, but others remain ...
According to NOAA, "studies suggest that more than 85% of North Atlantic right whales have been entangled at least once," and "about 60% have been entangled multiple times."
An entanglement of a North Pacific right whale at Hokkawa, Higashiizu on April 4, 2020, photo by Yoshiyuki Nakawaza, Dive Green. The whale was released next day. In its 2013 evaluation of the threats to survival of the North Pacific right whale, NOAA examined the possible impacts of entanglement in fishing gear and ingestion of marine debris ...