What is the current population of right whales, and where are they?”
There are four species of right whales: North Pacific, North Atlantic, Southern, and Bowhead. Their populations are about: 200, 300, 7500, and 9000, respectively. N. Atlantic Right whales have an enormous range, but the areas they’re most likely to be found over the year are the Georgia-Florida coast, Cape Cod bay, the Bay of Fundy, and the Scotian Shelf. They go somewhere during the winter, but where that somewhere is, nobody knows. The other kinds of right whale exist almost exclusively in the Arctic (Bowheads), from California to Japan (N. Pacific), or more or less the entire southern hemisphere, especially near the antarctic. In the 1500s, there was a population of roughly 100,000 right whales. In 1935, there was about 100 left (not counting southerns and bowheads, I believe). Since then, many bans were put in place on hunting them, and the whaling industry largely dried up, on account of there weren’t many whales left to hunt. Still, right whales reproduce fairly slowly (about 1 c
