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IMAGE: A North Atlantic right whale photographed in Cape Cod Bay, Mass. Trauma wounds are scarred over but still very evident, showing that non-lethal entanglement can still have serious health. view more
Credit: Photo: J. Durban, NOAA, and Holly Fearnbach, SR3. Permit # 17355-01
Woods Hole, Mass. (February 25, 2021) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) along with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries have released the first broad scale synthesis of available information derived from right whale health assessment techniques. The manuscript published today in the science journal
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, reviews available tools, and current understanding of the health status and trends of individual whales and the species. The paper concludes with recommendations for additional information needs and necessary management actions to enhance the health of individual right whales.
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IMAGE: Composite image showing just a small portion of the remarkable diversity of larval and juvenile fishes and invertebrates found living in surface slick nurseries along West Hawaii Island. view more
Credit: Larval photos: Jonathan Whitney (NOAA Fisheries), Slick photo: Joey Lecky (NOAA Fisheries).
The open ocean is a harsh place for newborn fishes. From the minute larvae hatch from their eggs, their survival depends upon finding food and navigating ocean currents to their adult habitats all while avoiding predators. This harrowing journey from egg to home has long been a mystery, until now.
An international team including scientists from the Arizona State University Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science (GDCS), NOAA s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, and the University of Hawai i at Mānoa have discovered a diverse array of young marine animals finding refuge within so-called surface slicks in Hawai i. Surface slicks create a su
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IMAGE: Composite image showing just a small portion of the remarkable diversity of larval and juvenile fishes and invertebrates found living in surface slick nurseries along West Hawaii Island. view more
Credit: Credit: Larval photos: Jonathan Whitney (NOAA Fisheries), Slick photo: Joey Lecky (NOAA Fisheries).
To survive the open ocean, tiny fish larvae, freshly hatched from eggs, must find food, avoid predators, and navigate ocean currents to their adult habitats. But what the larvae of most marine species experience during these great ocean odysseys has long been a mystery, until now.
A team of scientists from NOAA s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the University of Hawai i (UH) at Mānoa, Arizona State University and elsewhere have discovered that a diverse array of marine animals find refuge in so-called surface slicks in Hawai i. These ocean features create a superhighway of nursery habitat for more than 100 species of commercially and ecologi