To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller ...

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Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been sighted along the San Diego coastline, signaling the beginning of the blue whale watching season.

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It may be a fin whale, or perhaps a blue whale ... “Obviously, he’s able to eat and live and cruise around. Is he successful reproductively? I haven’t the vaguest idea.

A 65-foot fin whale that washed ashore on Cape Cod has been towed 50 miles offshore for natural decomposition. The whale, the largest stranding handled by the International Fund for Animal Welfare ...

Editor's note, July 1, 2019: For the first time in more than 30 years, Japan has resumed commercial whale hunting. On July 1, a fleet of five ships set sail in the morning and returned in the ...

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"The thing the whales eat for food, small little fish called krill, those krill moved more inshore, and the whales followed them, right where our fishing men and women put their gear," Bonham said.