Fin Whales are hunted in Greenland with a limit of 19 per year.Collisions with ships are an additional major cause of Fin Whale mortality.
Humpbacks, Fin whales, Bryde's whales and Gray whales, some of which are endangered species
Fin whales have two pectoral fins and a dorsal fin.
The fin whales has been heavily exploited from the 1870s to the early 1960s, when stocks in the North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere collapsed. Fin whale stocks in the North Atlantic collapsed in the early 20th century.
No. Blue whales have mated with fin whales.
Yes, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are classified as Endangered.
In the summer fin whales migrate to cold waters and in the winter fin whales migrate to warm waters.
the dorsal fin
There are estimated to be 3,000 fin whales off California, Oregon and Washington.
Fin whales have been listed as endangered since the early 1970s. Fin whales populations in the North Atlantic, however, now number 53,000, close to its historic size.
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They were hunted for meat and oil from their blubber.