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High-tech fishing gear could help save critically endangered right whales

  • Written by Michael Moore, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Only about 411 North Atlantic right whales exist, so every animal lost is a blow to the species' chance of surviving.(c) Nick Hawkins

Many fish, marine mammals and seabirds that inhabit the world’s oceans are critically endangered, but few are as close to the brink as the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Only about 411 of...

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