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19 10, 2016

Lets Talk About Whale Poo…

By Rachael Sinclair|2019-03-22T11:47:23+00:00October 19th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: fish, whale poo, whaling|0 Comments

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) are meeting this week and one of the key topics of conversation is whale poo. […]

10 09, 2016

A whale sized recovery for the humpback whale

By Cormac Booth|2016-09-10T17:17:46+00:00September 10th, 2016|Categories: News, Research & Development, SMRUC North America|Tags: acoustics, Cetacean, conservation, Endangered species, humpback whale, International Whaling Commission, IWC, Mitigation, noise, Ocean noise, PAM, passive acoustic monitoring, shipping, underwater noise, whales, whaling|0 Comments

This week we saw some really uplifting news in the whale world. The US government announced that they were removing almost all of the world’s humpback whale populations from the endangered species list. To be precise NOAA Fisheries stated in a press release on September 6th that humpback whales in 9 of 14 newly identified distinct populations [...]