Conservation Status – Endangered status due to historical hunting and environmental threats – Threats: Habitat loss, pollution, ... the significant rise in ocean noise caused by shipping and naval ...

Dead North Atlantic Right Whale washed off a coast. Source: YouTube. Uploaded: PBS NewsHour. By the late 19th century, the North Atlantic right whale population had been decimated by overhunting. The ...

Fin whales with San Esteban Island in the background. Image courtesy of Benjamin T. Wilder. According to the report, the Gulf of California’s ecosystems have undergone changes due to anomalous ...

In 2017, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species classified beluga whales as ‘least concern’, with an adult population of around 136,000 individuals. However, this obscures the status of the distinct ...

A critical analysis will be to determine whether baleen whale populations continue to recover as krill catches rise towards the precautionary catch limit. Exploitation of blue and fin whales in the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilogram (2.2 lbs) at auction Thursday, as ...

Blue Whale Conservation Status. Endangered; Blue Whale Locations. Ocean; Blue Whale Facts. Prey ... (including fin and northern minke whales) ... Because of overhunting, the blue whale population has ...

Japan has announced plans to add fin whales — the second-largest animal on Earth — to its list of commercial whaling species, which currently includes Bryde's, sei and minke whales.

Fin whale meat is back on the menu in Japan. ... although their status has since been updated to "vulnerable." Their population has roughly doubled since the 1970s, ...

Introduction. Antarctic blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia; henceforth ABWs) are the largest animals on the planet and were nearly extirpated during 20th century industrial whaling (Rocha ...

Nearly 100 of those were fin whales. With their numbers depleted by whaling, fin whales were not observed in the KFS again until 2005. Since then, however, the local population has rebounded to 100 to ...