Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and watercraft such as surfboards, kayaks and jet skis. Any vessel within 500 yards ...

Maine's marine resources commissioner is "strongly urging" lobstermen to move their gear from an area in the Gulf of Maine where over 70 endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted earlier ...

A group of about 75 endangered North Atlantic right whales was spotted off the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge. That's about ...

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

NOAA proposed a speed change to certain water vessels in order to aid the critically endangered right whale population.

NASSAU COUNTY, FLORIDA, Fla. — The right whale "Grand Teton" was seen with a newborn calf off Amelia Island on Thursday.

A proposal to lower speed limits on waterways — boat strikes kill a large number of the whales — was dropped in face of next administration.

BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...

A federal proposal that some say would have devasted the boating and fishing industry in South Carolina has been withdrawn.

Over 75 extremely rare sea creatures — about “20% of the entire population” — were spotted off the Maine coast, photos show.