Mexico published a rule on Wednesday 14 October that cut the gillnet ban zone in the Upper Gulf of California by 86%, effective Thursday 15 October.

The ban zone shrinks from 11,106 to 1,562 square kilometres, freeing about 9,544 square kilometres for gillnet fishing with permits.

Monitoring in 2025 sighted only seven to ten vaquitas, calves included, and the count is not a full census.

for anyone who has seen the movie, what parts of the whale behavior were accurate and what weren't? i'm not an expert but have watched a fair share of documentaries and love learning about marine life.

spoilers below:
for instance, i don't think orcas can even dive that deep 🧐 and a sperm whale can't chase a giant squid all the way to the surface like that? the sperm whale stays at the surface for a really long time at one part. google says they might stay 5-15min or longer after a deep dive... but overall, would love to hear from Real Whale Lovers about their thoughts about the movie. TIA!

Sperm whales existed for 20 million years having high complexity communications and social bonds. They inhabit deap ocean. Given it's depth vertical dimensions it's the largest biom on Earth. Humans only exist 1 mil years , even less, they inhabit the surface of dry land excluding desert areas...

It’s fairly obvious why Lake Superior couldn’t support a blue whale type population. However, given that there are plenty of dolphins and porpoises in rivers and freshwater, and that there are seals that are isolated in lakes, most notably Baikal, but also several other isolated lakes, why are there no isolated cetacean populations in any lakes? Obviously seals can get on land a little better, but not really past the shoreline. Every dolphin could get to the ocean right now if it wanted to, but that’s not true for seals, how come?

Hand carved Oak Whale

This video is a visualization of a dataset of 16,000+ whale calls observed and mapped in Monterey Bay from October 28 to November 9, 2025. These 13 days are compressed here into about 4 minutes, including slow-downs during which you can hear the observed sounds from various species. This is an example of the use of a new tool; a Localizing Passive Acoustic Monitoring (L-PAM) system called SonarPoint. While underwater acoustic tracking has long been practiced on fixed, cabled tracking ranges operated by the U.S. Navy and others, SonarPoint is compact and wireless, consisting of a set of short (~10m) seafloor mounted moorings that are recovered via an integrated acoustic release. In our most recent deployment called LMR 2, we deployed and calibrated/surveyed a seven-mooring system 25 miles from shore in water depth from 500m to 1450m over an 11 hour workday port-to-port. Recovery took about 9.5 hours. The maximum persistence of this system with continuous recording is about 14 months, supporting full year observation of cetaceans in remote locations. A system consisting of an inner array of five moorings surrounded by an outer array of six moorings will monitor an area of about 800 square km. This work is sponsored by the U.S. Navy NAVFAC Living Marine Resources (LMR) program under contract N39430-22-C-2428 and operations in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary were conducted under permit MBNMS-2024-033.

Here's a compilation video from our OBI Whale University field trip for the class called "Fluking around with Humpbacks". We ventured out west to the Strait of Juan de Fuca - way west nearly to Sombrio, British Columbia. Little did we know we would find a "herd" of literally hundreds of humpback whales spread out as far and wide as the eye could see!
This video doesn't do the encounter justice but it's our best attempt to share what we saw.
Hope you enjoy!

Conservation groups, local officials, and the Eastport City Council are actively fighting to stop the proposed subsea AI data center in Maine's right whale waters. These waters, are home to many marine animals, as well as the breeding ground for the endangered right whales. The proposed 27 or 400 acre subsea data center planned for development could destroy the habitat including the right whale breading ground, and raise the temperature of the waters in the Bay of Fundy, the area planned for development.

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One jump before recording felt like his tail came out of the water, massive jump that sounded like a cannon. This one was good too.

A Sowerby's beaked whale was spotted off Cornwall's coast near Fowey

I really am amazed by the strong gust of wind the whale pushes while exhaling. Just purely beautiful!!

Stills taken from 30 second video