From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds ... efforts are made to identify the whale using a photo catalog maintained by the New England Aquarium.

then made a surprise appearance this week off Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Pregnant female North Atlantic right whales migrate south each winter from the waters off New England and Nova Scotia to give ...

A Massachusetts court on Monday restored federal protections for endangered whales off New England against entanglement in fishing equipment, overruling a lower court that struck down the federal ...

The lower court had ruled against a federal law banning lobster fishing in a 200-nautical-mile area off the New England coast from Feb ... the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less ...

It's a setback for commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations during President Donald Trump’s administration.

Save LBI says NOAA has established two critical habitat areas for the right whale: one off the coast of New England, primarily for feeding, and one off the coasts of Georgia and South ...

also reported numerous whales sightings off the New Jersey coast. "All of our whale watching partners have been seeing whales and dolphins in the Western NY Bight," the organization wrote on its ...

The NYS DEC shared that the whale received the name Accordion after researchers observed scarring on her back that was likely ...

The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...

The winter fishing ban is important to the whales' survival because it takes place during months in which the giant animals are present in large numbers off the New England coast, said a group of ...