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The "Red List" label pushed Whole Foods, Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, and others to stop selling the shellfish caught in U.S. waters. More than 25,000 restaurants, stores, and distributors use the Red List to help guide purchasing and menu choices.
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So far, experts believe just nine North Atlantic right whales have been born this calving season. Now one, which was was captured in photos and videos off the coast of South Carolina, appears to have propeller wounds on its head, mouth, and left lip.
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Next week marks 50 years of the Endangered Species Act. The bedrock environmental law is credited with saving 291 species from extinction, or 99% of species listed as endangered or threatened. It has also drawn criticism for being too overreaching.
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The report explores how climate change has, for dozens of species, disrupted ecosystems, changed where whales go, led to a decline in reproduction, and even an increase in inter-species aggression.
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Massachusetts Lobstermen are looking for a new way to fish during an annual 3-month-long closure established to protect migrating whales. CAI’s Eve Zuckoff reports they’ve just been awarded a 1.2 million grant to develop technology on their own.
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The calf — who’s no more than 4 days old — was seen with its mother, who researchers call Juno. It’s the 8th documented calf for Juno, who’s one of just 70 breeding females remaining for the critically endangered species.
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Scientists say the latest right whale population estimate is 356.
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“We're still not addressing the injury part of this problem,” said Heather Pettis, a research scientist and the executive administrator of the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. “Until we do that, we're not going to see the population increase.”
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More than half of all large boats traveling through Cape Cod Bay failed to comply with speed limits designed to protect critically endangered right whales, according to a new report from Oceana.
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Two groups of experts on Cape Cod are trying a technique that has never been used on a whale calf before — sedation.