CSI Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility - entanglement http://csi.whoi.edu/taxonomy/term/743/all en WHOI Right Whale initiative accelerates research http://csi.whoi.edu/oceanus-2005 <a href="http://csi.whoi.edu/oceanus-2005" class="sharethis-link" title="WHOI Right Whale initiative accelerates research" rel="nofollow">ShareThis</a>[1334] <span class="biblio-authors"><a href="/biblio/author/277">Lippsett, L.</a>, </span> <span class="biblio-title">&quot;<a href="/oceanus-2005">WHOI Right Whale initiative accelerates research</a>&quot;, </span> <i>Oceanus</i>, vol. 44, issue 3, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, pp. 16-17, 12/2005. <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rft.title=WHOI+Right+Whale+initiative+accelerates+research&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.volume=44&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.spage=16&amp;rft.epage=17&amp;rft.aulast=Lippsett&amp;rft.aufirst=Lonny&amp;rft.pub=Woods+Hole+Oceanographic+Institution&amp;rft.place=Woods+Hole%2C+Massachusetts"></span><div class="field field-pdf"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Get PDF:&nbsp;</div> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://csi.whoi.edu/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="http://csi.whoi.edu/sites/default/files/literature/Oceanus-RightWhale_7085.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=285760" title="Oceanus-RightWhale_7085.pdf">Full Text.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p>The situation is urgent: Seventy years after whaling was banned, the North Atlantic right whale population has not recovered. Only 300 to 350 remain, and the species is headed toward extinction.</p> <p><a href="http://csi.whoi.edu/oceanus-2005" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://csi.whoi.edu/oceanus-2005#comments boat collision boat strike entanglement human interaction northern right whale right whale conservation right whale initiative ship strike southern right whale whaling Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:45:58 +0000 1334 at http://csi.whoi.edu