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Animals News tagged with right whales

Whales to Get a Break This Lobster Season
Animals  (tags: lobster fisherman, whales, endangered, protection, nova scotia, right whales )

Simone
- 7 days ago - fis.com
Hundreds of fishers in southwest Nova Scotia for the first time will be proactively lowering the chances of the endangered right whales from becoming entangled in floating fishing line when lobster fishing season opens on Monday.
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Calf Sighting Gives Right Whales New Hope
Animals  (tags: right whales, baby whales, sighting, tasmania, endangered, survivors )

Simone
- 111 days ago - theage.com.au
A ONE-TONNE newborn afloat in the inshore waters of Tasmania is living proof that the southern right whale is coming home from near extinction. For the first time since scientists began studying the species nearly annihilated by whalers over a century
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Endangered Right Whales Found Where There Were None
Animals  (tags: animals, right whales, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 199 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Scientists have documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales with the help of underwater hydrophones that can pick up sounds from hundreds of kilometres away
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Nice Job, Mom! Right Whales Break Birth Record
Animals  (tags: right whales, births, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 210 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day -- the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring.
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Endangered Right Whales Appear to Be on the Rebound
Animals  (tags: right whales, animals, rebounding, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, endangered )

Cher
- 245 days ago - cnn.com
North Atlantic right whales, sort of the homely underdogs of the whale world, birthed a record number calves this year off the coast of the southeast United States, giving some scientists hope that the uber-rare and often overlooked species can recover.
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Pilots Take to Skies for Right Whales
Animals  (tags: right whales, calving season, conservation, scanning, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 253 days ago - fortmilltimes.com
Together, this crew of seven works throughout the right whale calving season, combing the coast for the large mammals and warning mariners of their locations to avoid ship strikes. The team also gathers behavioral and biological data to piece together
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Whales Vs. Navy: Fight Goes On
Animals  (tags: florida, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, us navy, sonar, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, suffering, sadness, protection )

Jacquelin
- 268 days ago - abcnews.go.com
In the blue-green surf, 11 endangered North Atlantic right whales surface, jump and shoot mist high into the air through their blow holes. In this February 2005 file photo released by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) a Right Whale wi
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Right Whale Sedation Enables Disentanglement Effort
Animals  (tags: right whales, entangled, sedated, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 271 days ago - insciences.org
On Friday, March 6, 2009, for the first time ever, a North Atlantic right whale that had been severely entangled in fishing gear, was administered a sedation mixture that made it possible for rescuers to remove 90 percent of the entanglement.
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Play Our Game and Learn About Right Whales ~ Interactive
Animals  (tags: oceans, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 290 days ago - oceanconservancy.org
Help the Right Whale fix what's wrong!
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Record Number of Entangled Rare Whales This Winter
Animals  (tags: georgia, florida, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, entangled, record numbers, fishing gear, nets, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, suffering )

Jacquelin
- 293 days ago - boston.com
An unprecedented number of North Atlantic right whales have been found tangled in fishing rope this winter off Georgia and Florida - and scientists are searching where the marine giants that summer off New England may have picked up the gear.
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Right Whale Gives Birth Off N.C. Again
Animals  (tags: north carolina, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, new calf, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 339 days ago - newsobserver.com
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH -- A rare right whale that gave birth just off Wrightsville Beach four years ago has been spotted in the same area, another new whale in tow. The Star-News of Wilmington reports that Calvin, a female North Atlantic right whale who wa
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Whales to Be Considered in Shipping Lane Decisions
Animals  (tags: east coast, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, ships rerouting shipping lanes, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 366 days ago - boston.com
WASHINGTON--Shipping lanes around East Coast ports may have to steer clear of endangered whales. The U.S. Coast Guard agreed Friday to evaluate -- in consultation with federal scientists -- the rerouting of shipping lanes and the placement of new ones o
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Right Whales Spotted Off Port Royal Sound
Animals  (tags: hilton head island, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, endangered, extinction, environment, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 368 days ago - islandpacket.com
Jennifer Gentzel has seen whales in Alaskan waters, but never off the coast of Hilton Head Island. That was until Friday, when she saw two North Atlantic right whales come up for air while fishing with her family about 13 miles from the mouth of Port
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Ship Speed Limit May Help Rare Whales Survive Strikes
Animals  (tags: east coast, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, boat speed limits, endangered, extinction, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 369 days ago - chron.com
WASHINGTON -- Last Monday, researchers aboard a Cessna aircraft spotted a right whale and her calf loitering in the Atlantic about six miles east of Hilton Head Island, S.C. They fired off a bulletin to the Coast Guard, the Navy, and ship captains up and d
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Whales Awarded Right of Way
Animals  (tags: atlantic, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, boaters, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection )

Jacquelin
- 391 days ago - delawareonline.com
Over two days last year, a pair of rare North Atlantic right whales showed up at Indian River Inlet as they migrated south to their winter habitat off the coast of Georgia and Florida.
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