North Atlantic Right Whale Has Baby Boom

Encouraging, but sad that so many species need encouraging news.

Hi ehBeth. Better late than never. These environmental matters should have been perceived much earlier in time by cognitive species such as ourselves. At least they're still here. The same can't be said for many species.

Another small step towards a more satisfactory balance.

Great news!

I was hoping for some baby pics. Will see if I can find some to post.

In reading up on this I found that while there was a baby boom, there was also a higher number of right whale fatalities this year. And a bunch of them were breeding-aged females.

wowee. Now thatll give us something to watch for as we head out through The Indian Head and up through Blacks Harbour to Grand Manaan and out to Sea.We often see the Righteys but have only spotted a few calves in the last 10 years or so.

What time of year?

NOAA Right wahle siting info

Center for Costal Studies Info

Whale watching out of provincetown starts in a couple of weeks!

we will be heading out to Newfieland during July through early sEPT.

So, after the Rights hang here and breed, do they head North?

They wind up in the Bay of Fundy in summer and cause a great deal of turmoil between them and new shipping. The ferries and container ships that go to St Jonns or Bayside NB dont have problems because the have watches posted and use those deep pitched signal devices. Now with the possibilities of LNG shipping into Fundy and Passamaquoddy, Im not sure that the LNG ships will give a ****. Itlls be loaded with enough right whales from Gulf of Maine clear to the Banks off Nova Scotia. Theres a lot more of the bigger finbacks and now that there are 2 distinct orca pods in Fundy, were gonna be wall to wall whales.


I hope the LNG multinationals act responsibly. Or, I swear, we will join the sea shepherds, Ill retire early and well go stalkin tankers to keep em movining dead slowly.

Good on ya, farmerman!

Not a lot of people know why it's called the right whale.

Why do they call it the right whale?

The right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) got its common name from the fact that it was "the right whale" to hunt. This is because it had large amounts of blubber or fat. It was very slow and easy to chase, and it floated when it was killed making it easy to handle.

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/search/RightWhale.html