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Many thanks to reporter Christina Condon for the thorough research informing her article, “New buoy could help scientists protect whales from wind farm construction off the coast of Ocean City ...
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.
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 ...
The study, published for open access this week in the journal Marine Policy, examines the main causes of death for nine whale species in the California Current Ecosystem, which stretches from British ...
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.
The sei whale is an endangered species and its biggest threats currently are vessel strikes and entanglement. A 38-foot young male sei whale stranded and died on a beach south of Bandon, September ...
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, ...
A human-made racket under the ocean is a growing threat to three types of whales off the East Coast, Canadian scientists say. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada released ...
IFAW-funded researchers purchased 129 samples of meat from whale markets for analysis and discovered that two were humpbacks, five were fin whale, one was sei whale, two were beaked whales, 14 ...
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 ...