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The surveys have been used to produce seasonal maps showing the density of right whales (number of animals per square kilometer) throughout the U.S. east coast and Nova Scotia. [122] NOAA Fisheries maintains an interactive map of recent right whale sightings.
If you see a right whale, FWC officials ask to report the sighting immediately by calling one of the following numbers. U.S. Coast Guard on marine VHF Ch. 16 877-WHALE-HELP (942-5343)
To report a right whale sighting from North Carolina to Florida, call the volunteer sighting network at 888-979-4253 or the NOAA Fisheries hotline at 877-942-5343.
Two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts, and one is likely to die from its injuries, the federal government said. An aerial survey found the whales ...
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 ...
North Pacific right whale in Half Moon Bay, California, 20 March 1982, photo by Jim Scarff. The right whales were first classified in the genus Balaena in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, who at the time considered all of the right whales (including the bowhead) as a single species. Through the 19th and 20th centuries, in fact, the family Balaenidae has ...
The right whale team will continue to monitor by boat and plane the migration of the right whales. Most of the sightings happen in March and April. At times, the whales can be seen from shore ...
Map of sightings of right whales in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska 1973–2007 and designated critical habitat. Despite many aircraft and ship-based searches, [70] as well as analysis of listening device records, only a few small areas report recent sightings in the eastern North Pacific. The southeastern Bering Sea produced the most ...