NEMURO, Hokkaido–This year’s commercial whaling of minke whales has begun off the coast of eastern Hokkaido, with the first ...

While researchers along the East Coast have been documenting an “unusual whale mortality event” since 2016, there is a lot of ...

A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died after it became stranded on a shore of the island of Raasay. The 15m-long (49ft) animal was spotted in difficulty off nearby Skye on Thursday.

Humpback whales tend to be seen around the UK between January and March but there has been an increased number of sightings ...

The marine mammal — an infrequent visitor to the shores of the Emerald Isle — was spotted in the Waterford Estuary on the ...

Norway's whaling fleet will catch only half of its quota this season. The government set a quota of 1052 minke whales, (up from 797) but so far only 444 have been landed, reports BBC. Norway's ...

In total, 17,072 whales, such as sei and Antarctic minke whales, have been flensed and cut up in the Antarctic Sea, the Northwest Pacific Ocean and waters around Japan. Up until the 1970s when ...

BDMLR said the rope was wrapped around the whale's head and left fin. Source: Estimates of humpback and minke whale entanglements in the Scottish static pot (creel) fishery These entanglements can ...

Humpback whale sightings off the coast of Newquay have brought visitors from around the country. Cornwall Wildlife Trust said it had been "inundated" with sightings of the cetaceans in recent weeks.