These algal blooms may continue to be a significant threat to sei whales as climate change causes ocean waters to warm and algal blooms develop better in warmer waters. 4. of 14.

Meanwhile, whales are competing with fishing boats for the animals’ sole food supply. Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to ...

An endangered sei whale died in what may have been a ship strike at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook on Saturday. ... While whaling is now largely prohibited, human activity still poses a huge ...

A cruise ship arrived in New York Harbor with a dead sei whale pinned to its bow, a revelation that has spawned a federal investigation and has led biologists to examine the whale’s carcass to ...

A 44-foot sei whale was found dead on an MSC cruise ship's bow as it arrived at a ... "Vessel strikes and entanglement pose the biggest threat to sei whales today," the website stated. Close. Read ...

An endangered 44-foot Sei whale was likely struck and killed by the massive MSC Meraviglia cruise and dragged into the Port of Brooklyn over the weekend.

Sei whales, a type of baleen whale that can be as big as 100,000 pounds and measure 40 to 60 feet, ... The gentle giants still face threats, ...

Vessel noise pollution and shipping intensity poses a real threat to large whales, Bekah Lane, a cetacean field research specialist at The Marine Mammal Center, a California-based nonprofit marine ...

But the influx of whales puts the animals at greater risk of human interaction, their single biggest threat.. Scientists say it’s well-documented threats – vessel collisions, fishing gear and ...

Most shipping paths cross whale habitats, a recent analysis concludes, making ship collisions a “major threat” to the world’s whales. The study, published in Science last month, conducted a ...

The report in Science magazine found that whales are at risk “across the world’s oceans,” with 91.5 percent of all blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whale ranges containing shipping activity.