Right Whale Research Blog

The New England Aquarium is part of a massive collaborative effort to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from ship strikes, gear entanglements and other threats. All work and images are under scientific permit from NMFS.

5/26/16

Researchers Go Wild For Spring 2016 Collection!

Spring in New England means right whales feast upon large blooms of zooplankton in Cape Cod Bay (CCB) and the nearby Great South Channel, w...

5/18/16

Catching up on Winter 2016

Whew! For those of you who have been paying attention to the subject of right whales in the news, you know that the past few months have kep...

1/25/16

Reducing Rope Strength Could Reduce Entanglement Severity

With vessel strikes to right whales on the decline since numerous mitigation measures were put into place, the current number one threat to...

11/30/15

Exciting Right Whale Sponsorship News!

For more than 20 years, over 2,300 people have supported our research by participating in the Right Whale Sponsorship Program . As sponsors,...

11/9/15

#25: BOF 2015 By The Numbers

2 months 21 team staff and volunteers 4 survey boats ( Nereid , Callisto , Shelagh , Jupiter ) 3 survey areas ( Bay of Fundy [BOF], Rose...

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