Endangered whale numbers may be stabilizing after some bad years, but their future remains uncertain

MAINE PUBLIC • June 7, 2022

So far so good this year, no dead right whales have been spotted. Fifteen calves were born — the second-largest number since 2015. And observers were impressed by the saga of one whale, a mother who, injured and entangled in fishing gear, managed to escort her calf a thousand miles up the coast.