This was probably the largest aggregation of baleen whales seen since the 1930s, at the peak of industrial whaling. My friend also reported that four enormous fishing boats were weaving among the ...
Krill fishing vessels operating in the Southern Ocean have hauled in two dead humpback whales, as well as an injured whale, in separate incidents this year. The details were revealed in a report ...
Some populations, like the Antarctic blue whale, were reduced by more than 99% and have been struggling to recover, even though most nations ended commercial whaling in the mid-1980s. Today a new ...