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Stranding of a live humpback whale in the Magdalen Islands

Stranding of a live humpback whale in the Magdalen Islands

2018-05-282018-05-29•0•Notes from the Field, Quebec, Strandings, Website Rotator, Whales•CWHC, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Environment Québec, humpback whale, Magdalen Islands, orca, Quebec, Réseau québécois d’urgences pour les mammifères marins

On March 25th, 2018, the stranding of a live juvenile humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) on a … Stranding of a live humpback whale in the Magdalen IslandsRead more

North Atlantic Right Whale Mortality Event in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

North Atlantic Right Whale Mortality Event in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

2017-10-20•0•Atlantic, Collaborations, Quebec, Trauma, Whales•Atlantic, Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Canadian Whale Institute in New Brunswick, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, carcass, Centre québécois pour la santé des animaux sauvages, collision, commercial fishers, Dalhousie University, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, endangered, entanglement, Environment and Climate Change Canada, fishing gear, Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals in Québec, Gulf of St. Lawrence, human activities, Marine Animal Response Society, Marine Mammal Commission, Mingan Island Cetacean Study, mortality, NARW, Necropsy, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick Museum, New England Aquarium, North Atlantic Right Whale, Parks Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador), Quebec, Québec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network, ships, the provincial governments of Nova Scotia, Transport Canada, trauma, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, UdeM, Universite de Montreal, University of North Carolina Wilmington, UPEI, vessel, Whale

During the summer and early fall of 2017 an unprecedented mortality event occurred involving North Atlantic … North Atlantic Right Whale Mortality Event in the Gulf of St. LawrenceRead more