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How to Identify and Report North Atlantic Right Whales

This guide helps you identify North Atlantic right whales and report sightings. The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered large whale species.
December 18, 2025 -
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Southeast
Close up of a North Atlantic right whale head as it swims at the surface of the ocean.

Have You Seen a Rice's Whale?

This guide helps you identify Rice’s whales, report sightings, and reduce the risk of collisions when boating in Rice’s whale habitat. Rice’s whales are the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of America. Fewer than 100 of these highly endangered whales remain.
November 26, 2025 -
Southeast

Boaters: Watch for Manta Rays

This educational signage is designed to inform boaters about the threatened giant manta rays, particularly focusing on their nursery habitat located off the coast of southeast Florida. It offers crucial information to help prevent boat strikes and report giant manta ray sightings.
September 25, 2025 -
Southeast

Giant Manta Ray Boat-Based Angler Guidance

This guidance provides recreational anglers with instructions on how to prevent interactions with manta rays during boating and fishing activities, and how to report any sightings.
September 25, 2025 -
Southeast

Giant Manta Ray Shoreline and Shark Angler Handling and Release Guidance

This guidance provides instructions for shoreline and shark anglers on the proper handling and release of giant manta rays that are accidentally caught while fishing from the shoreline.
September 25, 2025 -
Southeast

Protected Marine Species Identification Guide Southeast United States

This guide is intended for use by mariners in the identification and reporting of threatened and endangered marine species in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and U.S. Caribbean.
September 03, 2025 -
Southeast

Cook Inlet Beluga UAS Photogrammetry and Photo-Identification Survey Brief - 2025

Boat-based photo-identification and aerial UAS photogrammetry survey of Cook Inlet beluga whales.
June 04, 2025 -
Alaska

Oceanic Whitetip Shark Identification Guide

Identification guide for protected oceanic whitetip sharks.
May 27, 2025 -
Pacific Islands
Shark illustration with identification info including on its stocky build, grayish bronze to brown color, whitish underside. Length of up to 11 feet (3m), 330-lb weight. Rounded, mottled white dorsel apex. Often have black-tipped secondary fins (anal and dorsal). Notch on tail fin. Long, rounded pectoral fins with mottled white tips, Flattened, short snout, Trangular, serrated top teeth and thin, serrated tips on bottom teeth. QR code with link to more information on oceanic whitetip sharks.

How to Identify a North Pacific Right Whale?

North Pacific right whale right whales are incredibly rare. This guide helps you identify them, and provides tips for what to do when you encounter them.
May 13, 2025 -
Alaska
A V-shaped exhale observed from a North Pacific right whale

Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Aerial Abundance Survey Research Brief 2025

Aerial survey of Cook Inlet beluga whales
April 25, 2025 -
Alaska