eNewsletter: September edition
Spotlight: Finback whale
Each month we will dive into fun facts, stories, and updates with you, our whale and dolphin loving community of fin-tastic supporters!
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Icelandic government lifts suspension on whaling
Earlier this year, Icelandic Fisheries Minister, Svandís Svavarsdóttir called off the summer season’s fin whale hunt, on the grounds that it breaks Iceland’s own animal welfare laws. On top of this, no new licenses have been issued for 2024 onwards.
Devastatingly, the Icelandic government will allow whalers to continue to kill fin whales this fall…
Did you know?
Despite their seeming shyness, fin whales have no qualms when it comes to mixing with some other species of whales and have even been known to breed with blue whales, giving birth to hybrid calves!
More Fin Whale Facts
- Mostly solitary and are rarely found in groups
- They can grow up to 80 feet in length
- They can consume up to 2000kg (4409lbs) of…
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If a finback was your teacher, you wouldn’t be able to hear them without a decoder! Finbacks speak at a frequency too low for humans to hear without speeding up the sound.
In the news
The New York Times reports that a whale feeding frenzy in Antarctica signals a conservation success
Dr. Herr and her colleagues documented the return of large numbers of fin whales to the waters that once made up their historical feeding grounds in a paper published on Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. The research provides a glimmer of good news in what is otherwise a worrisome landscape for global biodiversity, and species of ocean dwellers in particular.
“It was one of the most spectacular observations I’ve had,” said Dr. Herr, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Hamburg. “The fin whales seemed to go crazy because of the food load they were confronted with. It was absolutely thrilling.”
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