Marine Animal Response Society

Fred Whoriskey, executive director of the Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University, called the beaching of two of the ocean's apex predators abnormal.

The federal Fisheries Department says it won't order a necropsy into the death of a young blue whale off Cape Breton.

The body of an endangered blue whale has come ashore along the western coast of Cape Breton, prompting suggestions a necropsy be carried out to determine the animal's cause of death.

Marine researchers are asking people to stay a safe distance away from a beluga whale that has strayed into a number of rivers around Charlottetown.

More than half the 70 North Atlantic right whale deaths recorded over the last 16 years were caused by entanglement in fishing gear or vessel collisions, a new study reports.

A necropsy will likely not be performed on a humpback whale that washed ashore on the Bay of Fundy near Harbourville, N.S, an animal rescue group said on Wednesday, March 21, 2018,.

Their names were Glacier, Starboard and Peanut. The colourfully named mammals were among 15 North Atlantic right whales who died off the coast of Canada and the U.S. in recent months.

More research is needed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to determine if it has become an emerging habitat for endangered North Atlantic right whales, experts said on Friday, July, 7, 2017.

A young beluga whale that lost its way in a northern New Brunswick river has been rescued in a unique and complex operation before being reunited with a pod in its natural habitat.