North Atlantic Right Whale

After analyzing the speeds of 8,714 ships and boats over 65 feet along the Atlantic Coast from 2017 to 2020, Oceana, a marine conservation group, is warning that federal officials need to update vessel speed requirements and expand enforcement.

It’s the first time a critically endangered right whale has been reported entangled in Canadian waters since 2019.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the company an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA), effectively allowing for unintentional harm to marine mammals during the construction period from May 2023 through April 2024.

The fight is on to save North Atlantic right whales. There are just over 360 left in the world, and conservationists and scientists are studying the critically endangered creatures and how to save them. Legal battles are also playing out that could have a major impact on conservation efforts—and the multi-million dollar lobster fishery here in Massachusetts.

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released a key report called a Biological Opinion yesterday that calls for a 98 percent reduction in risk to North Atlantic right whales over the next 10 years.

The goal of Michael Moore’s years-long research is to evaluate whether North Atlantic right whales are growing in healthy ways. The whales are nearing the end of a three-month period during which nearly half the population of approximately 360 can be spotted in Cape Cod Bay.

On Wednesday, a team from Provincetown’s Center for Coastal Studies managed to remove 300 feet of what appears to be fishing rope from the 16-year-old female known as Snow Cone, but experts fear more may be embedded in her jaw.

The first North Atlantic right whale calf to arrive in Cape Cod Bay this season has been spotted — a month earlier than expected.

Fishermen and conservationists are expressing safety concerns and doubts about the effectiveness of proposed regulations to protect North Atlantic right…

Federal officials want feedback on proposed regulations to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from entanglement in fishing gear.…