It also recommends improved reporting procedures so that anyone who spots a whale in trouble can quickly reach a response team for help. The disentanglement programs already are being put in place. They need all the help they can get from us. Temperate waters of both hemispheres. Black with white patches on chin and belly.
Enormous head measures one-third total body length.
Estimated 300 animals remaining in North Atlantic an endangered, protected species. Preferred target of whalers for hundreds of years for baleen and oil. Hunted nearly to extinction. Southern right whale is recovering faster than northern whale. We welcome your feedback.