The North Atlantic Right Whale Sighting Survey (NARWSS) is a NOAA Fisheries program which locates and records the seasonal distribution of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) off the northeastern coast of the United States.

There are approximately 370 individuals remaining, including about 70 reproductively active females. With so few of these whales left, researchers closely monitor the Southeast for new offspring during the annual right whale calving season.​

Trained responders freed the whale from a life-threatening entanglement near Gustavus, Alaska.

The crew collects valuable information from endangered sperm and Rice’s whales, blackfish, dolphins, and seabirds in the final days of the 2024 Vessel Survey for Abundance and Distribution of Marine Mammals and Seabirds.

Initiation of a 5-Year Review for North Atlantic Right Whale

NOAA Fisheries announces scientific research paper that describes a new species of baleen whale in the Gulf of Mexico.

Assessing the impacts of noise and vessel disturbance on endangered Southern Resident killer whales.

Last year scientists combined infrared cameras with image recognition software to automatically detect and count migrating gray whales. This year, they upgraded.

Disturbance is identified in the Final Recovery Plan for the Northern Right Whale (Recovery Plan) as among the principal human-induced factors impeding recovery of the northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) (NMFS, 1991). NMFS is issuing this interim f

Scientists have reported the first dive depths for Gervais' and True's beaked whales, two of the least known beaked whale species known as mesoplodonts.

Get answers to frequently asked questions about interactions between offshore wind energy projects and whales on the East Coast.

First suggested for killer whales, skin molt may drive long-distance migration for all whales that forage in cold waters.

Allison Henry is a fisheries biologist with the large whale team at the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center. She flies in a plane over the Gulf of Maine collecting critical population data about the North Atlantic right whale.

Range maps for populations (stocks) of false killer whales in Hawaiian waters.

Large whale entanglement has been a predominantly male field, but a growing cadre of experienced and skilled women has strengthened and diversified the response teams.