The most recent data from NOAA shows a major decline in gray whale populations compared to a year ago. Here's what to know.

The graph shows the North Atlantic right whale population trend since 1990. Scientists used these updated data to recalculate annual estimates of the right whale population since 1990, according ...

The gray whale population was large, at about 27,430 between 2015-2016. In the following years, a decline started from 2019-2023 to below 15,000 that was considered as unusual mortality event.

Additionally, dolphin populations may have declined by up to 43% since then, the study said. The Gulf of Mexico is home to at least 18 species of odontocetes, or toothed whales, the paper stated ...

Its population faced a drastic decline during the 2010s, ... But recent research suggests that the whale population has risen to an estimated 372 in 2023—a 4 percent increase since 2020.

NOAA graph of Eastern North Pacific gray whale abundance from 1967/168 to 2022/23. NOAA Fisheries. "[This decline] for a species of such slow reproduction rate certainly is alarming," Meynecke said.

The increase, while modest, follows a steady decline in the right whale population to a low of 358 in 2020. In 2023, the population was estimated at 372.

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There were only 20 right whale calves spotted during the 2023-2024 season. 50 calves are needed on average annually for multiple years to stop the decline. Since 2017, the whales have been ...

The gray whale population was large, at about 27,430 between 2015-2016. In the following years, a decline started from 2019-2023 to below 15,000 that was considered as unusual mortality event.

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