New Scientist reports that the blue whale have been reappearing in Pacific Ocean waters off Alaska and Canada.These whales have been slowly migrating and reappearing in the area since 1997; the most since a 1965 whaling ban.
Whalers formerly caught hundreds of blue whales in the northern zones, landing 1300 between 1908 and 1965. Yet despite the ban, they seemed not to recover there, suggesting to some researchers that the cultural knowledge of the area had been lost.Read the full story: Migrating blue whales rediscover "forgotten" waters
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