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The juvenile right whale’s death comes about two weeks after a female North Atlantic right whale was found dead near Joseph Sylvia State Beach on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Jan. 28.
According to NOAA, twenty-five of the seventy-one right whale deaths reported since 1970 resulted from ship strikes. [71] 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 ...
Like other right whales, the North Atlantic right whale, also known as the northern right whale or black right whale, [2] is readily distinguished from other cetaceans by the absence of a dorsal fin on its broad back, short, paddle-like pectoral flippers and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. Its coloration is dark grey to black ...
The North Atlantic right whale numbers less than 350, and it has been declining in population for several years. ... The federal government declared the whale's decline an “unusual mortality ...
The most recent right whale to die was found floating 50 miles (80 kilometers) offshore east of Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia Beach, Virginia, last Saturday, the Na
Calves and juveniles have a high mortality rate. In fact, it is projected that a female may have to give birth more than four calves in order to replace themselves. [3] The low reproduction level and small population makes the recovery of the North Atlantic right whale very difficult with even low levels of human-caused mortality.
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 ...
During the 2012 annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission's Scientific Committee, data was presented regarding the continued phenomenon of southern right whale strandings and high rate of mortality at Península Valdés. Between 2003 and 2011, a total of 482 dead right whales were recorded at Península Valdés.