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North Atlantic Right Whales Are Facing Extinction

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

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North Atlantic Right Whales Are Facing Extinction
Ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements continue to reduce the numbers of North Atlantic right whale population, and the species could…
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January 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM
joeymaier.bsky.social
🦑 #Marineresearch
🦈 #shark #whaleshark #climatechange

Further coverage of research that predicts there will be more #shipstrikes on whale sharks in the future

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October 26, 2024 at 6:20 AM
meertext.bsky.social
#Entanglement, das Verheddern in Fischereigeschirr, ist für Wale ein Riesenproblem.
Es kostet sie Kraft, kann Flossen amputieren und sie letztendlich töten.
#Fischerei gefährdet Wale, genauso wie Schiffskollisionen #Shipstrikes

Windkraftanlagen hingegen sind keine Gefahr
July 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
veganrick.bsky.social
Dead humpback whale washes ashore on #KeatsIsland, days after collision with whale-watching boat

#BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #Whales #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #Tourists #WhaleWatching #BoatStrike #PrinceOfWhales #Wildlife #MaritimeTraffic #AnimalLaw #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #ShipStrikes

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The tail of a deceased whale that washed ashore on Keats Island is shown. (Submitted)
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
ladraculessa.bsky.social
#BallenasoGas @unep.org @unepwcmc.bsky.social @unesco.org @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social 🙏🏻Don't sacrifice the biodiversityof Gulf of California, whales, vaquitas and marine life for gas-oil
#ShipStrikes #pollution #HabitatDegradation #NoisePollution
#BiologicalinvasionViaBallastWaterbetweenContinents
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
thegreentank.bsky.social
🐋 Can technology help protect #Mediterranean sperm & fin #whales from #shipstrikes?
🔊 A Mongabay feature explores solutions, eg. #SAvEWhales which is developing early-warning system for ships in the Strait of Kythira.
💬 @iolich.bsky.social explains why targeted solutions matter.
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Can we stop ships from killing the Mediterranean’s last great whales?
Collisions with ships are a leading anthropogenic killer of the Mediterranean’s two endangered large-bodied cetacean species, sperm and fin whales. In 2025, thousands of vessels traveled through the M...
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September 25, 2026 at 8:12 AM
joeymaier.bsky.social
🦑 #Marine research
🐋 #whales #whalestranding
⛴️ #shipcollision

Popular press coverage of new paper linking increased humpback whale deaths to shipstrikes, not offshore wind development.

Newport folks will need to find other reasons to hate on windmills
June 3, 2024 at 11:17 PM
aninewforest.bsky.social
Only 370 North Atlantic right whales remain, 20% of whom are females who can bear young. As a coastal species that must chase shifting food sources, they often end up in shipping lanes. A new AI tool aims to predict their movements and prevent shipstrikes that kill one right whale every three weeks.
February 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
veganrick.bsky.social
Prince of Whales boat hits humpback whale in ‘surprise encounter’

#Vancouver #BC #Whales
#Canada 🇨🇦 #Humpbacks #Cetaceans #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #MaritimeTraffic #WhaleWatching #Oceans #Boating #ShipStrikes #Marinelife #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #BCtourism

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Humpback whale Raza (BCX1852) with injury from vessel strike on Sept. 23, 2021. (Kaitlin Paquette)
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
forth-ite.bsky.social
🔬 Fieldwork has kicked off in the 📍 Kythira Strait, led by the Institute of Applied & Computational Mathematics of @forth-ite.bsky.social & the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute.

Fieldwork will continue through the end of August

#SAvEWhales #biodiversity #marineconservation #shipstrikes
thegreentank.bsky.social The Green Tank @thegreentank.bsky.social · Jul 7
🌊🐋 #SAvEWhales takes action in Greek waters!
🔬 Fieldwork has kicked off in the📍 #KythiraStrait, led by the Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas & the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute. It will continue through August.
🎯Develop & implement a system to prevent #shipstrikes on #spermwhales
July 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
joeymaier.bsky.social
We hear lots of stuff about #shipstrikes killing #whales in shipping lanes, but recreational boating is also a threat

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
Collision risk for whales migrating through Queensland waters has been underestimated, research finds
New research has found that recreational boats may be underestimated as a strike risk to migrating whales in Moreton Bay — a region with an "unusual proportion" of humpback whale calves.
www.abc.net.au
November 16, 2024 at 8:05 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
A grey whale named ‘Little Patch’ charms people along the seawall in Vancouver

#BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #Whales #Cetaceans #GreyWhales #Oceans #Marinelife #Wildlife #MarineTraffic #Shipping #Conservation #ShipStrikes

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
A grey whale known as Little Patch is shown along the shores of West Vancouver, B.C., on April 9. Frank Lin/The Canadian Press
May 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
joeymaier.bsky.social
🦈 #shark #whaleshark
⛴️ #Shipping

New research identifies 39 spots where whale shark aggregations are near shipping routes, vulnerable to #shipstrikes. Study compared efficacy and cost of steps to mitigate collisions with whale sharks
Identifying priority sites for whale shark ship collision management globally
The expansion of the world's merchant fleet poses a great threat to the ocean's biodiversity. Collisions between ships and marine megafauna can have p…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
Winter brings Australia’s ‘humpback highway’ to life and peak hour is about to begin

#Australia 🇦🇺 #Auspol #Oceans #HumpbackWhales #Whales #Cetaceans #Marinelife #Ghostgear #FishingNets #SharkNets #ShipStrikes #AcousticPollution #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

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In winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from their Antarctic feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas along Australia’s east and west coasts. Photograph: John Goodridge Humpback whales can weigh up to 40 tonnes. Photograph: John Goodridge
June 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
joeymaier.bsky.social
#whales #shipping #shipstrikes

"Shipping occurs across 92% of whale ranges, and <7% of risk hotspots contain management strategies to reduce collisions."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans
After the near-complete cessation of commercial whaling, ship collisions have emerged as a primary threat to large whales, but knowledge of collision risk is lacking across most of the world’s oceans....
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:12 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
#NGOs Sue to Protect Whales from Ships Docking in California’s Ports

#California #USA 🇺🇸 #Ports #Whales #USpoli #Shipping #ShipStrikes #Cetaceans #SeaTurtles #MarineTraffic #Marinelife #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies

maritime-executive.com/article/ngos...
San Francisco Bay
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
oceancare.bsky.social
🐋 At #OurOcean10 in Busan, SAvE Whales partners showcased real progress since the project’s launch in Athens. This real-time acoustic system will help protect endangered sperm whales in the Kythira Strait — where rerouting ships isn’t possible. #SAvEWhales #ShipStrikes
April 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
oceancare.bsky.social
OceanCare pushes for vessel speed reduction & rerouting to protect whales from ship strikes. In Spain, Greece & via the #SAvEWhales system in the Kythira Strait, we work with partners & authorities to keep whales safe — before it’s too late. #ProtectWhales #ShipStrikes #BecauseOurPlanetIsBlue
May 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
Protecting B.C.’s southern resident killer whales by asking more ships to slow down 🎥

#BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #Orcas #Cetaceans #Whales #Marinelife #ShipSlowdown #ECHOprogram #Wildlife #ShipStrikes #EndangeredSpecies #MarineTraffic #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

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Protecting B.C.’s southern resident killer whales by asking more ships to slow down - BC | Globalnews.ca
The program has expanded its voluntary ship slowdown at Swiftsure Bank, off Vancouver Island, to more effectively overlap with a “hot spot” of whale activity.
globalnews.ca
June 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
What really happened? 🧐

The whale was definitely struck’: Passenger responds to company statement

#BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #BCpoli #Humpbacks #Whales #PrinceOfWhales #Tourists #WhaleWatching #Boats #Cetaceans #ShipStrikes #DFO #Cdnpoli #MarineTraffic #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

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'The whale was definitely struck': Passenger responds to company statement
A passenger who was on board the whale watching boat when the whale was hit earlier this week says the incident was more severe than it has been documented in the media.
cheknews.ca
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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📸Alexander Goebel

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#spermwhales #whaleconservation #MegaMAR #marineconservation #shipstrikes #canaryislands
March 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
meertext.bsky.social
Danke! Ja, Tempolimit für Schiffe reduziert shipstrikes mit Walen erheblich, außerdem reduziert es Lärm.
June 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
joeymaier.bsky.social
First the wind farm opponents tried to blame surveying and construction sounds for whale deaths. Necropsy showed that the #whales were killed by #shipstrikes. Now they're trying to blame the deaths on increased survey ship traffic.

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November 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
Humpback whale struck by #HulloFerries passenger vessel Friday

#Vancouver #BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #EnglishBay #HumpbackWhales #ShipStrikes #Marinelife #MarineTraffic #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #Oceans #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #DFO #AnimalRights

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Humpback Whale Frosty (BCX1188) with two species of barnacle on her tail athat only grow on Humpbacks (MERS, Marine Mammal License MML-57)
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
veganrick.bsky.social
"Minimal contact" This whole story smells...

Whale watch firm ‘devastated,’ says its boat could have hit humpback later found dead

#KeatsIsland #BC #Canada #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #HumpbackWhales #ShipStrikes #Marinelife #WhaleWatching
#PrinceOfWhales #AnimalRights

vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/27/w...
A humpback whale is seen just outside of Hartley Bay along the Great Bear Rainforest, B.C. on Sept. 17, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM