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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/science/beaked-whale-diving-record.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science

Beaked Whale Shatters Record With 3 Hour 42 Minute Dive

9/25/2020 - By Katherine J. Wu. The 1959 movie “Ben-Hur” runs some three-and-a-half hours long. A Cuvier’s beaked whale could watch the entire film underwater, never taking a gulp of air, with time to spare. “They are remarkable divers,” said Nicola Quick, a marine biologist at Duke University. These pointy-snouted cetaceans, which frequent the… SEE MORE

https://www.montereyherald.com/2019/12/18/rescuers-free-entangled-humpback-whale-off-california-coast

Rescuers Free Entangled Whale Off Monterey

12/18/2019 - By Associated Press. A rescue team helped free a young humpback whale that was tangled in fishing gear south of San Francisco days after a fisherman first spotted it, a conservation group said Tuesday. The team in a small inflatable boat in Monterey Bay attached five large, hot-pink buoys to… SEE MORE

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NW Charter Fishing Fleet Casts Wary Eye Toward Possible Cutbacks To Save Orcas

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4/26/2019 - By Tom Banse Pacific Northwesterners are undeniably fond of their endangered resident orcas. Many locals are also fans of salmon fishing, a hobby that sustains charter fishing fleets in coastal harbors from Neah Bay, Washington, to Brookings, Oregon. But now there is a chance that future fishing trips on the ocean… SEE MORE

Migrating Blue Whales Rely on Memory More than Environmental Cues to Find Prey

Nature

3/25/2019 - Oregon State University - Blue whales reach their massive size by relying on their exceptional memories to find historically productive feeding sites rather than responding in real time to emerging prey patches, a new study concludes. Researchers examining records of both whale migration and oceanic conditions in the California Current… SEE MORE

Right whale researchers heading out for the day

A Day in the Life of a Right Whale Researcher

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3/16/2019 - By Jason Gray Jason Gray, a member of the New England Aquarium Development Team, took a trip up to Lubec, Maine, to see what it’s like to be an Anderson Cabot Center right whale researcher during field season. The knock on the door comes at 5 a.m. “Good to go!”… SEE MORE

Regulators to Consider Reducing Lobstermen’s Lines to Protect Right Whales

3/2/2019 - Regulators will consider removing up to 40 percent of the lines that link seabed lobster traps to buoys on the surface, taking the step in the hopes of protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale and avoiding federal restrictions on the lobster fishery. Fishermen who serve on the American Lobster… SEE MORE