A report summarizing humpback whale monitoring results from Glacier Bay and Icy Strait, Alaska in 2019 is now available.
Following a five-year period (2014-2018) of dramatic decline in humpback whale abundance, we documented two calves and an encouraging uptick in whale numbers in 2019. Foraging conditions last summer appeared to be good, and we saw the return of several reproductive females who had not been sighted in recent years. Read our short Resource Brief for summer 2019 here: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/640111 Read a Currents blog post about the 2019 results, plus our preliminary 2020 observations here: https://www.nps.gov/glba/blogs/good-news-from-the-humpback-whale-monitoring-program.htm -- Janet Neilson Humpback Whale Monitoring Program Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve PO Box 140 Gustavus, AK 99826 907-697-2658
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