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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A North Atlantic right whale that was found dead last month was tangled in fishing gear originating from the Maine Lobster Fishery, officials said.. The whale was positively identified as #5120, a ...

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.

Fight to protect right whale, lobsters roils Maine politics. By Rob Hotakainen | 10/26/2022 06:29 AM EDT . New fishing rules aimed at protecting North Atlantic right whales have angered lobstermen ...