The Makah Indian Tribe has requested authorization to hunt gray whales, a tradition secured by the 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay.

Summary Report: 1991-2022 NMFS has documented killer whale entanglements through a variety of means established under three primary programs for several decades.

A message from Donna Wieting, Director of NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources. Celebrate whales and learn how our scientists and managers conserve and protect these ocean giants.

Vessel Reuben Lasker to assess gray whales and search for highly endangered right whales.

Gearing up biennial survey of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales.

NOAA Fisheries identified that Bryde’s whales are the source of a new whale call in the western North Pacific. Working with Google AI, we used machine learning to sort through thousands of hours of acoustic recordings and identify when and where these cal

We seek to understand more about the way whales and dolphins use the coastal and offshore areas of the Northwest Atlantic and how to protect them from harmful conflicts with human activity.

Juneau is by far the dominant whale watching port in Alaska.

New genome sequencing reveals the reason behind Southern Resident killer whales' failure to thrive.

Necropsy shows signs of marine debris; line, net, and plastic found inside the whale’s stomach.

Watch this video to learn more about endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales—known as canaries of the sea.

The large whale entanglement response team effort spanned over six days before successfully disentangling the whale.

This plan identifies measures to protect, promote, and monitor the recovery of North Pacific right whale populations. Because the most significant historical threat to North Pacific right whales (whaling) has been and continues to be addressed, and there

The 2011 Sei whale recovery plan which provides a research strategy to obtain data necessary to estimate population abundance, trends, and structure and identifies factors that may be limiting sei whale recovery

Marine mammal observer Alison Ogilvie and others regularly take to the skies to document and monitor endangered North Atlantic right whales, including a right whale named Fenway.