Join us for a celebration of all cetacean species and learn how our scientists and managers work to conserve and protect whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

Join us for Whale Week 2018!

Be Whale Wise – Follow these guidelines and local laws in the presence of Southern Resident killer whales.

NOAA Fisheries research identifies what makes the best conditions for Rice’s whale habitat, and predicts where else these whales occur.

We estimate the number of gray whale calves born each year and assess whale body condition during their northward migration in the spring. These surveys are essential to tracking the status of the eastern North Pacific gray whale population.

When a right whale dies and we find it in U.S. waters, we work with stranding network partners to do a necropsy so that we can find out more about the whale and what caused its death. The right whale known as “Snake Eyes” likely died from entanglement.

2007 summary of the bowhead whale population, management, psychology, behavior and the Alaska Native subsistence hunt.

Co-management of the bowhead whale subsistence harvest.

Developing a comprehensive ecological understanding of the endangered Rice’s whale, formerly known as Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale.

NOAA Fisheries authorizes emergency response to large whales with life-threatening entanglements.

Right whales have been seen in high numbers south of Cape Cod, in Cape Cod Bay.

A rare encounter with killer whales in Hawaiian waters.

Each fall, the Right Whale Festival celebrates North Atlantic right whales and their annual return to the waters off Florida and Georgia, which is the only known right whale calving area.

The Central California survey counts migrating whales for a new population assessment.

The Right Whale Festival celebrates the annual return of endangered North Atlantic right whales to the warm coastal water off northeast Florida and Georgia, where they give birth to and nurse their young.