Humpback whales play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems by linking distant oceanic regions through their extensive migratory journeys. Their annual movements between high‐latitude, productive ...

We have documented over 800 different individuals [this year]," said Shaw. In 2022, nearly 400 humpback whales were recorded in the area, the highest total recorded at that time.

Whale experts say this is because commercial whaling, and later, illegal whaling by the Soviet Union, shrunk this population so dramatically that it's had a harder time recovering.

Average population growth was 5.9 between 2002 and 2013. From 2012 to 2021, there was an estimated population decline of nearly 7,000 whales in the North Pacific.

A sprawling international study of humpback whales in the northern Pacific has found their population has shrunk significantly since 2012 — despite the once-endangered species' remarkable ...

Over the past two decades, humpback whale activity has been increasing in B.C. waters, according to researchers. The increase in activity has been 100 years coming, UBC’s Marine Mammal Research ...

The team contributed to research that found a 20-per cent drop in the North Pacific humpback whale population between 2012 and 2022, apparently linked to the marine heat wave known as “the blob.” ...

Average population growth was 5.9 between 2002 and 2013. From 2012 to 2021, there was an estimated population decline of nearly 7,000 whales in the North Pacific.

As the scientist reviewed, the humpback whale population in eastern Australia was near extinction in the 1960s, but thanks to the ban on hunting in 1978 and conservation policies, the species ...