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UPDATE: This post has been updated with input from NOAA Fisheries regarding the likelihood that the whale had been struck by a ship. A 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled ...

Whale School Zones: Each year, NOAA Fisheries enacts a number of fixed “Seasonal Management Areas”—the equivalent of school zones for whales—along the eastern coast from Florida to Maine.

"The humpback was pushed off aquaculture equipment, and the whale washed ashore on Huntington Beach on the morning of January 25." Experts with NOAA, WCRSN, the Ocean Animal Response and Research ...

“The humpback was pushed off aquaculture equipment, and the whale washed ashore on Huntington Beach on the morning of January 25.” Experts with NOAA, WCRSN, the Ocean Animal Response and ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erica Page (@planetwhale) Late Saturday, NOAA Fisheries issued a statement explaining that a necropsy had been performed on the whale and that ...

Japan will add large fin ... fin whales. “It’s also important to inherit traditional food cultures in Japan.” Japan caught a total of 294 minke whales, Bryde’s whales and sei whales ...

Research has confirmed killer whales were responsible for bite wounds on a dead white shark that washed up on a beach near Portland, Victoria. It is the first killer whale predation on a white ...