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.

Using underwater microphones and machine learning (ML), researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers -- offering a potentially safer and more cost-effective ...

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 Ocean City buoy operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whales are gathering in large numbers off New Jersey in a portion of the Atlantic Ocean called the New York Bight, according to several sources.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's decision on Thursday and reinstated the protections. The lower court had ruled against a federal law banning lobster fishing ...