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12-22-2016

Eubalaena glacialis

Eubalaena glacialis NatureServe Explorer Species Reports — NatureServe Explorer is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals and ecological communtities of the U.S and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe Explorer is a product of NatureServe in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.

ITIS Reports — Eubalaena glacialis ITIS (the Integrated Taxonomic Information System) is a source for authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.The North Atlantic right whale is a baleen whale, one of three right whale species belonging to the genus Eubalaena, all of which were formerly classified as a single species. Because of their docile nature, their slow surface-skimming feeding behaviors, their tendencies to stay close to the coast, and their high blubber content, right whales were once a preferred target for whalers. At present, they are among the most endangered whales in the world, and they are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act and Canada’s Species at Risk Act. There are less than 366 individuals in existence in the western North Atlantic Ocean—they migrate between feeding grounds in the Labrador Sea and their winter calving areas off Georgia and Florida, an ocean area with heavy shipping traffic. In the eastern North Atlantic, on the other hand—with a total population reaching into the low teens at most—scientists believe that they may already be functionally extinct. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fixed fishing gear, which together account for nearly half of all North Atlantic right whale mortality since 1970, are their two greatest threats to recovery.

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Detailed information
Full Name: North Atlantic right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
Where found: Wherever found
Critical Habitat:N/A
Species Group:Mammals
Current listing status
Status Date Listed Lead Region Where Listed
Endangered 06/02/1970 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Wherever found
  • States/US Territories in which the North Atlantic right Whale, Wherever found is known to or is believed to occur: Georgia
  • US Counties in which the North Atlantic right Whale, Wherever found is known to or is believed to occur: View All
  • Additional species information
Federal register documents
Date
Citation Page
Title
04/08/2008 73 FR 19000 19014 Designation of Critical Habitat for North Pacific Right Whale: Final rule.
08/22/2001 66 FR 44115 44116 Endangered Fish and Wildlife; Draft Recovery Plan for the Western North Atlantic Right Whale, Notice of extension of comment deadline
07/11/2001 66 FR 36260 36260 Draft Recovery Plan for the Western North Atlantic Right Whale
03/23/1999 64 FR 14052 14077 (NOAA/NMFS) Endangered and Threatened Species; Regulations Consolidation; Final Rule
06/03/1994 59 FR 28794 28834 Designated Critical Habitat; Northern Right Whale
07/19/1993 58 FR 38553 Designated Critical Habitat; Northern Right Whale
05/19/1993 58 FR 29186 29187 Proposed Critical Habitat; Northern Right Whale
03/23/1988 53 FR 9469 NOAA--Listing of Endangered and Threatened Species & Designating Crit. Hab.; Petition for Designation of Crit. Hab. for Right Whale; 53 FR 9469
06/02/1970 35 FR 8491 8498 Part 17 - Conservation of Endangered Species and Other Fish or Wildlife (First List of Endangered Foreign Fish and Wildlife as Appendix A)
04/14/1970 35 FR 6069 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Endangered Species Conservation); 35 FR 6069
Recovery
To learn more about critical habitat please see http://ecos.fws.gov/crithab
Date
Title
Plan Action Status
Plan Status
05/21/2010 North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery Plan View Implementation Progress Final
Date
Title
Plan Action Status
Plan Status
05/21/2010 North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery Plan View Implementation Progress Final
Date
Citation Page
Title
Document Type
07/11/2001 66 FR 36260 36260 Draft Recovery Plan for the Western North Atlantic Right Whale
  • Notice Draft Recovery Plan Availability
Date
Citation Page
Title
Document Type
Status
04/08/2008 73 FR 19000 19014 Designation of Critical Habitat for North Pacific Right Whale: Final rule. Final Rule Final designated
03/23/1999 64 FR 14052 14077 (NOAA/NMFS) Endangered and Threatened Species; Regulations Consolidation; Final Rule Final Rule Final designated
06/03/1994 59 FR 28794 28834 Designated Critical Habitat; Northern Right Whale Final Rule Not Required
05/19/1993 58 FR 29186 29187 Proposed Critical Habitat; Northern Right Whale Proposed Rule Not Required
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