Right whales

April 20, 1956

In Opportunity of a Lifetime, “Conservation” of Right Whales Recorded in Vineyard Waters

Vineyard Gazette
“Cap’n” Seth Wakeman Jr.
Right whales
Whales
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
September 6, 1974

Two Sea Giants Swim Silently Northward, Their Species Protected and Their Path Free of Bombs

Bruce Brooks
Nuzzling the shoreline with the curiosity and daring that made its ancestors easy prey for whalers, a young right whale is swimming slowly northward along the East Coast toward Martha’s Vineyard.
Right whales
Whales
Sea turtles
Marine Mammal Protection Act
April 24, 1998

Right Whales Seen in Waters Off Gay Head

Mark Alan Lovewell
One of the rarest creatures on the earth, the endangered right whale, was seen near the Vineyard Tuesday.
Right whales
Whales
National Marine Fisheries Service
Aquinnah
May 29, 2021

NOAA Sets Framework to Reduce Right Whale Entanglements

Noah Asimow
A new biological opinion will require fixed gear and trap pot fisheries in the Northeast to reduce entanglements by 87 per cent over the next decade.
Right whales

1956

April 20, 1956

In Opportunity of a Lifetime, “Conservation” of Right Whales Recorded in Vineyard Waters

Vineyard Gazette
Right whales
Whales
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

“Cap’n” Seth Wakeman Jr. of Menemsha reports that representatives of the Oceanographic Institution at Woods Hole got “some of the best whale pictures ever taken,” during a recent visit to the Island. In addition to taking still and movie shots, the scientists also had excellent luck in recording the sounds of the whales which have been seen off Menemsha Bight and Gay Head in recent weeks.

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