Article: Ships, Fishing Gear Continue to Threaten Right Whales in Georgia Waters.

Article: Right Whales Return to Georgia Coast Early
AP Online;  October 27, 2004 ;     396 words ... ... whalers who said they were the "right whales" to hunt. The whales were ... leading cause of death among right whales. Even though right whales are a top conservation priority ... Information from: Savannah Morning News, http://www.savannahnow ...

Article: Trying to do the right thing But inbreeding, collisions with ...
The Boston Globe;  September 25, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... the water's surface as two Northern right whales thrash just below, oblivious to the ... the open waters off Nova Scotia, the right whales have begun their late summer party season ... encounters. They are a frisky bunch, the right whales, mating year-round and taking so ...

Article: Endangered right whales found where presumed ...
NewsRx Science;  June 7, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area they were thought to be extinct ... important unstudied habitat for endangered right whales and raises the possibility that - contrary ... central or eastern Atlantic stock of right whales still exists and might be viable ...

Article: History of Whaling and Estimated Kill of Right ...
Marine Fisheries Review;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Introduction This study of shore whaling for right whales, Balaena glacialis(1) (Fig. 1 ... a present-day summering ground for right whales. Other authors have discussed the large ... hunts for balaenids, including both right whales and bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus ...

Article: SIGHTING OF RARE RIGHT WHALES HAS EXPERTS SPOUTING ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 3, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... and identified at least four northern right whales, including what appears to be a calf ... kind a flick of hope, saying maybe the right whales are reproducing,'' said David Rugh ... for them.'' So dwindling are the right whales in the eastern North Atlantic and eastern ...

Article: RIGHT WHALES HEAD NORTH; RISE SEEN IN WINTER SURVEY ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Georgia and Florida coast, North Atlantic right whales are heading north for the summer. Research ... indicate that the number of individual right whales spending the winter in the South increased ... rare aquatic giants. The last of the right whales were seen heading north at the ...

Article: Right Whales May Not Be Going Extinct
AP Online;  October 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... ANCHORAGE, Alaska North Pacific right whales may not be going extinct after ... Scientists have found twice as many right whales in the Bering Sea as previously ... can be saved. "We saw more right whales in the Bering Sea than have been ...