“Cap’n” Seth Wakeman Jr.
Right whales
April 20, 1956
Vineyard Gazette
September 6, 1974
Bruce Brooks
Nuzzling the shoreline with the curiosity and daring that made its ancestors easy prey for whalers, a young right whale is swimming slowly northward along the East Coast toward Martha’s Vineyard.
April 24, 1998
Mark Alan Lovewell
One of the rarest creatures on the earth, the endangered right whale, was seen near the Vineyard Tuesday.
May 29, 2021
Noah Asimow
A new biological opinion will require fixed gear and trap pot fisheries in the Northeast to reduce entanglements by 87 per cent over the next decade.
2018
April 26, 2018
Three North Atlantic right whales were seen south of Martha’s Vineyard this week; mariners are advised to use caution.
April 17, 2018
Rescuers have been working to free an entangled female North Atlantic right whale, one of the many that have made their seasonal arrival in waters south of the Vineyard and in Cape Cod Bay to feed.
March 1, 2018
After a year of rising concern about North Atlantic right whales, scientists have yet to document a single newborn whale during calving season.
January 25, 2018
About 25 North Atlantic right whales gathered south of the Vineyard last week, marking an early-season sighting.
January 22, 2018
Three environmental organizations went to court against the federal government last week.
January 18, 2018
Dr. Mark Baumgartner will be the featured speaker for Plight of the Right Whale, an upcoming Tuesdays in the Newsroom talk held at the Gazette office on Tuesday, Jan. 23.
