Oct 30, 2025 · The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is one of the most endangered whales in the world—approximately 340 remain—due to entanglement and ship collisions.

Jan 10, 2025 · The North Atlantic right whale is one the world’s most endangered large whale species. Their main threats are ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.

Sep 12, 2022 · The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is one of three right whale species worldwide, along with the North Atlantic right whale and the southern right whale. Once driven nearly …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Oct 30, 2025 · 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 …

Nov 3, 2004 · By the 1500s, the Basques had exterminated the right whale population on the eastern side of the North Atlantic Ocean, and too few whales remained for worthwhile hunting. In the latter …

Apr 26, 2020 · The analyses revealed that individual North Atlantic right whales —juveniles, adults and mothers—were all in poorer body condition than individual whales from the three populations of …

Since 1970, nearly half of all documented North Atlantic right whale deaths have been due to two human-related causes—ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear. Ship strikes were the major …