Right Whale Conservation

 

Fishery Interactions

• Information on the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan
  
  
• Right Whale Disentanglement Efforts
  • January 2011- Scientists Successfully Use Sedation to Help Disentangle North Atlantic Right Whale
  • December 2010- NOAA and Partners Assist Entangled Right Whale off East Coast of Florida
• March 2009- Scientists Successfully Sedate Entangled Right Whale – A Worldwide First!
  
  
• Information on the Final Rule for Right Whale Gillnet Restrictions in the Southeast – June 2007
  
  
• A Gillnetter's Guide to the Southeast U.S Restricted and Monitoring Areas

Ship Strikes

• Compliance Guide for Right Whale Ship Strike Reduction Rule

• Information on the Right Whale Ship Strike Reduction Plan
  
  
• Recommended Shipping Lanes Fact Sheet Southeast Region
  
  
• Recommended Shipping Lanes Fact Sheet Northeast Region

Additional Information

• Right Whale South - Calving Season

• Right Whale Outreach and Education

North Atlantic Right Whale Critical Habitat

• October 6, 2010 - 90 Day / 12 Month Determination to Revise North Atlantic Right Whale Critical Habitat (75 FR 61690)
• October 5, 2010 - Media Advisory on the Determination to Revise North Atlantic Right Whale Critical Habitat
• June 4, 1994 - Northern Right Whale Critical Habitat Designation

 

For additional information on this subject contact: Barb Zoodsma