The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out ...

The Makah Tribe has submitted a permit application to NOAA Fisheries that will allow it to hunt up to 25 eastern North Pacific gray whales over a 10-year period, starting with one harvest this summer ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The gray whales are on their annual migration path between breeding grounds in Mexico and feeding grounds off the coast of ...

The Makah First Nation, located on the most northwestern tip of Washington state – just south of Port Renfrew – has been ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

Whale pee and other bi-products play a vital role in ocean ecosystems. Find out how they transport nutrients across the seas.

Get up early. Winds, and therefore the waves, are mellower in the morning. Later in the day, the sun may cast a glare on the ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

which resulted in a higher-than-normal number of gray whale strandings in the eastern North Pacific population. A total of 690 strandings were reported in that time, according to the National ...