Southern Right Whale and Calf (IMAGE)

NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region

Southern Right Whale and Calf

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This is a southern right whale and calf near Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. New research links a surge in the death of southern right whale calves in the mid-2000s with harmful algal blooms in the same area.

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John Atkinson, Ocean Alliance

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CREDIT: John Atkinson, Ocean Alliance

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