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Understanding the Incident Report for the 2017 North Atlantic Right Whale Mortality Event in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
During the summer of 2017, we seemed to be discovering dead or entangled North Atlantic Right Whales every week in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Throughout this catastrophe, teams of…
Your Right Whale Questions Answered
With the 11th North Atlantic Right Whale found dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, totaling 14 mortalities in the Atlantic since June, there are many questions surrounding the largest…
Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale
There are only about 500 North Atlantic Right Whales left in the world. Based on scarring patterns, it is estimated that more than 100 of these whales get entangled in fishing…
Is Canada Ready to Stand Up for the North Atlantic Right Whale?
Update (July 22, 2017): DFO has now completely closed the crab fishery in Area 12. This will help prevent more entanglements and it is a further, unprecedented action that is…
Investigating the loss of 6 Right Whales
Last month, six North Atlantic Right Whales were found dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. For a critically endangered population of just over 500 individuals, these deaths represent approximately…
The dilemma of the North Atlantic Right Whale (and researchers)
“There are more North Atlantic Right Whale researchers than there are Right Whales” is a phrase the Right Whale community uses to relate the plight of the Right Whale, and…
Setting the Record Straight on Right Whales
This article was written by CWF’s Marine Manager, Sean Brillant. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a U.S. environmental activist organization, recently released a report entitled Net Loss: The…
Doing Right by the Right Whale // Pour affranchir les baleines franches des périls qui les guettent
Even the mighty can fall. The North Atlantic right whale may weigh in at 70 tonnes and reach 17 metres in length, but these massive mammals are in some serious…
Knowledge Gaps as Big as a Whale
We know frustratingly little about these massive creature’s movements. We know even less about where they congregate and why, how they choose their migration routes and what causes these to…
Time-Area Fishery Closures and How They Are Connected to Whale Conservation
The entanglement of cetaceans – whales, dolphins and porpoises – in commercial fishing gear is a growing problem worldwide. Entanglement occurs when an animal encounters rope in the water and…
