“Since 2020, the population of whales has grown by about 7 percent. In 2024, the most recent year for which there is data available, the whale consortium estimated that there were 384 whales, an increase of about 2 percent from the year before. And in 2025, Pettis said, there were zero mortalities of right whales detected.

This year’s calving season, which began in November and runs through April, has brought more promising news. So far, 18 new calves have been spotted, including one on New Year’s Day. An aerial survey team identified a calf swimming off the coast of Florida with its mother, Boomerang, named for her boomerang-shaped white scar.

‘We’re having a great year,’ said Ryan Schosberg, a member of the right whale ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. He has been conducting aerial surveys to spot whales. Last year, there were only 11 calves spotted, he said.”

From The Boston Globe.