No right whale, they add, is documented as dying entwined in Maine gear, pointing much of the blame for recent deaths on vessel strikes in Canada. The last whale known to get entangled in lobster ...

Maine is the largest lobster-producing state in the U.S. Some of the gear used to catch the crustaceans poses an entanglement risk to the endangered North American right whale population.

More than 75 North Atlantic right whales were spotted in waters off Maine and New Hampshire earlier this week, accounting for about 20 percent of the population of the endangered species.

"They've been hanging on by their flipper-tips for tens of decades." Experts baffled by unprecedented behavior of critically ...

And as Maine Public reported last year, the most common color that NOAA officials have recovered from other types of entangled whales, such as minkes and humpbacks, has been purple, the Maine mark.

In a bid to protect North Atlantic right whales, many scientists are promoting alternative lobster fishing gear that minimizes the risk of entanglement. While some lobstermen in Massachusetts have ...

It is the first time Maine gear has been found on the carcass of a North Atlantic right whale, an endangered species. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries announced ...

A North Atlantic right whale that washed ashore is renewing a bitter fight between whale advocates and Maine lobster fishers over how to save an ocean giant near extinction.

The North Atlantic right whale isn’t doing well. There are fewer than 350 of these stocky baleen whales believed to be left in the wild—and the numbers are shrinking. In the last six years ...

With more than $17 million in hand, Maine has a new plan to search for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. State officials hope to the use the newly gathered data to advocate for ...

An aerial view of North Atlantic right whale Pediddle and her 10-month-old calf skim feeding in the Gulf of Maine. New England Aquarium, taken under NMFS permit # 25739 ...