The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out ...

Whale Watching Week means better views and nicer weather to see gray whales. However, gray whale calf numbers are at historic ...

The gray whales are on their annual migration path between breeding grounds in Mexico and feeding grounds off the coast of ...

The tribe applied for the permit under regulations NOAA Fisheries issued on June 13, 2024, granting the tribe’s request for a limited waiver under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to hunt the ...

The Makah First Nation, located on the most northwestern tip of Washington state – just south of Port Renfrew – has been ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Whale pee and other bi-products play a vital role in ocean ecosystems. Find out how they transport nutrients across the seas.

Get up early. Winds, and therefore the waves, are mellower in the morning. Later in the day, the sun may cast a glare on the ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

which resulted in a higher-than-normal number of gray whale strandings in the eastern North Pacific population. A total of 690 strandings were reported in that time, according to the National ...