Baleine des basques

Scientific name:

Eubalaena glacialis

Threat level:

Endangered

Authority:

P.L.S. Müller, 1776

Common names:

• North atlantic right whale (English)
• North atlantic right whale (English)
• Northern right whale (English)
• Black right whale (English)
• Ballenga (Spanish)
• Ballena franca del norte (Spanish)
• Ballena (Spanish)
• Baleine de biscaye (French)

Version:

3.1

Year assessed:

2008

Assessor(s):

Reilly, S.B., Bannister, J.L., Best, P.B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R.L., Butterworth, D.S., Clapham, P.J., Cooke, J., Donovan, G.P., Urbán, J. & Zerbini, A.N.

Evaluator(s):

Taylor, B.L. & Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. (Cetacean Red List Authority)

Justification:

The major decline occurred more than three generations ago. The number of reproductively active females was determined to be 70 animals in 1998. Even allowing for the possibility that some mothers have been missed in the identification catalogue, this means that the total number of mature (i.e. reproductively active) individuals is well below the Endangered threshold of 250. The eastern North Atlantic subpopulation, if it still exists, is clearly extremely small (fewer than 50 mature individuals). If listed separately, it would be classified as Critically Endangered, Possibly Extinct (CR PE).

Geographic ranges:

• Bahamas (Native)
• Bermuda (Native)
• Canada (Native)
• United States (Native)
• Belgium (Possibly extinct)
• Faroe Islands (Possibly extinct)
• France (Possibly extinct)
• Germany (Possibly extinct)
• Ireland (Possibly extinct)
• Morocco (Possibly extinct)
• Netherlands (Possibly extinct)
• Norway (Possibly extinct)
• Portugal (Possibly extinct)
• Spain (Possibly extinct)
• United Kingdom (Possibly extinct)
• Western Sahara (Possibly extinct)
• Greenland (Vagrant)
• Iceland (Vagrant)

Population trend:

Unknown

Ecosystems

• Marine

List of habitats:

• Marine Neritic
• Pelagic
• Marine Oceanic
• Epipelagic (0-200m)

List of threats:

• Transportation & service corridors
• Shipping lanes
• Biological resource use
• Logging & wood harvesting
• Intentional use: (large scale)
• Unintentional effects: (large scale)

List of conservation actions:

• Species management
• Species recovery