Article: It's a Good Year for Right Whale Calving

Article: Groups Sue National Marine Fisheries Service to ...
U.S. Newswire;  November 9, 2005 ;     683 words ... ... National Marine Fisheries Service for failing ... and kills a right whale, it pushes ... significant spike in right whale mortalities ... and even the Fisheries Service agree that this ... protect the right whale. The time to ...

Article: Right whale report calls for regulations on ships: ...
National Fisherman;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... report NMFS released on Aug. 1 recommends regulating the shipping industry to reduce right whale deaths caused by ship strikes. Eighty percent of the right whale deaths for which a cause can be found have been attributed to ship strikes, yet since ...

Article: NEW SPEED REGULATION BEGINS FOR MARINERS TRANSITING SEASONAL ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 11, 2008 ;     593 words ... ... enforcement of the Northern Right Whale strike reduction rule Tuesday ... endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. The National Marine Fisheries service initiated the strike reduction ... Road, especially during Right Whale season. The coastal waters ...

Article: CREWS WORK TO FREE ANOTHER RIGHT WHALE FROM ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... this the third right whale we've disentangled ... said NOAA's Fisheries Service biologist Laura ... southeast during right whale calving season," said NOAA's Fisheries Service large whale disentanglement ... strikes. NOAA's Fisheries Service encourages ...

Article: Endangered Right Whale Calf Dead in Fla.
AP Online;  January 23, 2006 ;     438 words ... ... said Kim Amendola, a NOAA Fisheries Service spokeswoman. Recreational ... Beach, Amendola said. Another right whale calf was reported dead off ... said Barb Zoodsma, a NOAA Fisheries Service right whale biologist. "The tail had ...

Article: Right whale death raises extinction fears.(News)
The Boston Herald;  February 19, 2004 ;     574 words ... ... States. A 46-foot female right whale was stuck and killed late ... was a poster child of the right whale not to kill," said Michael ... Silber of the National Marine Fisheries Service. "The right whale is in very dire straits ...

Article: Ocean Conservancy Applauds Representative Waxman's Call to Bush ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to do right by the right whale by putting solid ... The nation's right whale scientists, including ... at National Marine Fisheries Service, have made clear that ... the North Atlantic right whale is one of the world ...