SENDAI (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of Okhotsk.

A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese port Monday for the Sea of Okhotsk to hunt 25 fin whales. The crew of the ship, which left Shimonoseki port, plans to start hunting fin whales in the ...

A 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled in commercial mussel-farming gear this week off Huntington Beach washed ashore Saturday morning just south of the city pier.

In this undated photo, a humpback whale's fluke is shown breaching the water's surface in British Columbia as a cargo ship passes nearby. A recent study led by researchers at the University of ...

SEATTLE — With the near complete end of commercial whaling, ship collisions are now a leading cause of death worldwide for large whale species, according to new research published in ...

Those whales share an increasingly busy ocean with shippers, whose vessels travel the equivalent of more than 4,600 times the distance to the Moon and back each year, the scientists estimated.

Climate Lab Environment Local News Puget Sound Science Ship strikes now leading cause of whale deaths, UW study finds Dec. 6, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated Dec. 6, 2024 at 7:00 am By Lynda V. Mapes ...

A humpback whale in front of cargo ships in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the California coast. (Credit: Adam Ernster) The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were very ...

It’s well known that cargo vessels and whales don’t mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for the majestic creatures. However, between high-profile accidents, careful ...

The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were unfortunately very rare, overlapping just 0.54% of blue whale hotspots and 0.27% of humpback hotspots, and not ...

Yet global data on ship strikes of whales are hard to come by — impeding efforts to protect vulnerable whale species. A new study led by the University of Washington has for the first time quantified ...

Across the world's oceans, the study found more than 95 per cent of the hot spots for whale-ship collisions are located near the coast, where countries have the capacity to protect marine life ...