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The long-endangered North Atlantic right whale saw a “modest” increase in numbers in 2024, according to a newly released estimate from the New England Aquarium, and ship strikes and entanglements are substantially down so far this year.
Scientists have logged fewer whale deaths in 2025
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 21, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago
Two new moms were spotted with their calves in 2025 in unexpected places. Monarch, pictured here with her calf in April 2025, was spotted in Cape Cod Bay. (Submitted by the New England Aquarium)
The long-endangered North Atlantic right whale saw a “modest” increase in numbers in 2024, says a newly released estimate from the New England Aquarium.
The estimate puts the population at 384, up from the 2023 estimate, which has been revised to 376.
The centre also reported a substantial drop in entanglements and ship strikes — the leading cause of injury and death for right whales — so far this year.
The eight-whale increase last year is very good news, given the population was in decline for almost a decade, says Philip Hamilton, a senior scientist at the aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life in Boston.
But this doesn’t mean the species is recovered.
“Often the first thing I get asked is, ‘So are we good?
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