Weather conditions and angry businessmen threaten the final release of the Russian Whale Jail whales. Loading has reportedly halted due to bad weather, but should commence as soon as the weather improves.
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The gray whales that migrate today along the coast of North America are one of the bright spots for whales that were severely depleted during the heyday of commercial whaling. The species has the unfortunate distinction of having been repeatedly reduced before protection efforts were put in place by the League of Nations and nations that host the migrations. And still today, every summer, they are hunted in Russia.
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Earlier this year, a lone beluga whale showed up along the Norwegian coast, approaching fishermen and being exceedingly friendly. The local fishermen noticed the beluga was wearing some kind of a harness and were able to remove it.
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Last Friday, The Russian Fisheries Agency (VNIRO) announced that eleven beluga whales are being moved hundreds of miles from the Whale Jail, east of Vladivostok, to their home waters in the Sea of Okhotsk. The belugas were reportedly picked up on October 18th and loaded onto a research vessel for transport north.
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How does one learn to free a whale from entanglement if that whale is swimming hard and not interested in slowing down?
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On Sept. 26th, the Russian Fisheries Agency (VNIRO) announced that the remaining 75 beluga whales would be moved by a special research vessel to the Sea of Okhotsk and released back into the wild.
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The following letter, signed by 27 prominent international marine mammal scientists, has been sent to the Russian government and media urging that no new quotas for live captures of beluga whales and dolphins occur in 2020.
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In the Anderson v. SeaWorld lawsuit, three plaintiffs contend that SeaWorld's statements about the health and care of captive orcas are false and mislead the public and violate California consumer protection and fair business practices laws.
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One of the major questions that confronts the release of cetaceans: Will they be able to find and rejoin their original family pods, despite being in captivity for a prolonged period of time?
A positive answer has now emerged for one of the Whale Jail orcas who has been released. On August 20th, Grigory Tsidulko and other Russian researchers studying bowhead whales around the Shantar Sea were able to photograph a pod of killer whales that included an orca with a satellite tag.
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I recently went on a whale-watching cruise in Monterey Bay, leaving from the small city of Santa Cruz. We spent quite a long time watching a pair of humpback whales – a mother and her calf – feeding on anchovies in the bay. As an extra treat, we also encountered a great white shark. The presence of humpback whales in Monterey is a major conservation victory. Three shore-based whaling stations, one in Monterey Bay and the other two in San Francisco Bay, hunted for the great whales during the 1950s and early 60s.
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