As its whale watching season in the Falklands thought I would post my favorite photo of a Southern-right whale..
#whales #southernright #humpback #sei #orca #minke #finwhales

📢World Whale Day!
These gentle giants also call the #Mediterranean home.
🐋 #Finwhales and #spermwhales are extraordinary mammals, essential to ocean balance and indicators of its health. Today their survival is at risk. Protecting whales means defending Mediterranean biodiversity. 💙

The fin whale is the second largest animal on Earth, reaching up to 27 metres in length.

Sleek and fast, it has a long grey body, a white underside, and distinctive asymmetrical jaw colouring - white on the right and dark grey on the left -which helps with feeding.

#ORCA #FinWhales

D29 #TimeTravelAuthors

Now she was letting herself be pulled by the current, not charting her own path. The day had started so rough, easy felt good.

#KeepingTime #FinWhales #MidnightCurrent #YAfiction #Snippet #TimeTravel #MusicAndMemory

D17 Life advice: #TimeTravelAuthors

Embrace the theme of Season of Love by the Fin Whales. When something special is happening in you life, enjoy it fully. Let the future worry about where it can go and where it may end.

#KeepingTime #LifeAdvice #FinWhales #MusicAndMeaning #YAFiction

I hate this so much because it's happening to everyone including myself. I'm getting zero in-person sex work. 😭😭😭😭 And literally I've given most of my tiny amount of money to other sex workers uuuggghhh where are the #finwhales !!!!!!!!

From sanctuary to shipping lane: LNG Canada tankers threaten BC’s whale haven | The-14 LNG Canada tankers bring deadly risks to humpback and fin whales in BC’s Douglas Channel, threatening a fragile recovery with strikes and noise pollution.

From sanctuary to shipping lane: LNG Canada tankers threaten BC’s whale haven
#IndigenousPeoples #BC #Canada #GitgaatNation #IndigenousStewardship #IndigenousRights #LNGCanada #BCWhales #DouglasChannel #HumpbackWhales #FinWhales #MarineLife #Oil #Gas
the-14.com/from-sanctua...

Fin Whales Flashback: Eva Kinsella in 1987 (Part 3) Raw, Real, and Rising: The Final Word from Eva Kinsella

🖤 Fin Whales Flashback: Eva Kinsella, 1987 (Part 3)
The final part of Eva’s interview is live.

She opens up about songwriting, Fiona’s quiet strength, and how to stay grounded when the world starts watching.

#FinWhales #KeepingTime #80sMusic #WomenInMusic #YAfiction #IndieMusic #MusicMemoir

Fin Whales Flashback: Eva Kinsella in 1987 A resurfaced interview series from 1987

Just dropped something a little different. I dug up a 1987 interview with Eva from The Fin Whales.
Found it buried on Fiona’s bookshelf. Love Eva even more.
Part 1 is up now: tinyurl.com/3995a8sm

#YALit #FinWhales #KeepingTime #80smusic #StoryExtras #YAFiction #MissingInterview #MusicHistory

Fin Whales by the Boat! Read the full story here: buff.ly/UOOBzuv
Video by Amy
This is an encounter from 2019
#WhaleTales #FinWhales

🇬🇧 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐝 🐋❄️🌊
The first mission of the second year at the North Pole for the Sedna project draws to a close. Thanks to the researchers, technicians and PhD students, who contributed valuable data.
#finwhales #climatechange #articresearch
@szndohrn.bsky.social
@cnr-isp.bsky.social

When the Planet's Second Largest Animal Surfaces from the Ocean's Depths, It's an Awe-Inspiring Sight Second only in size to the blue whale, seeing a fin whale surface from the ocean's depths can leave you spellbound!

#FinWhales: When the Planet's Second Largest Animal Surfaces from the Ocean's Depths, It's an Awe-Inspiring Sight
@azanimals
a-z-animals.com/video/watch-... #savethewhales

No whaling for Fin Whales in Iceland this summer. Blog: markavery.info/2025/04/13/n... #iceland #whales #finwhales

🚨 Island: Diesen Sommer keine Finnwaljagd! 🐋❌
Hvalur hf stellt die Jagd ein – Gründe unklar, vermutlich sinkende Nachfrage. Bis zu 209 Wale gerettet!
Ein großer Erfolg für den Walschutz – doch der Kampf geht weiter. Island muss den Walfang endlich beenden.
#StopWhaling #FinWhales #Iceland #CPWF

Thanks so much for this encouraging article, @paulclammer.bsky.social and to Dr. Helena Herr and team for this research. #GoodGreenNews 🌎 #finwhales #marinebiology

We wish everyone a healthy and happy new year 2025 🐋🍀 Let's make it a good one for the whales in #Iceland and for marine conservation in the North Atlantic and beyond.
#stoppumhvalveiðar #minkesmatter #finwhales

Hundreds of whales to be harpooned as Iceland issues new hunting licenses On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke whales in Icelandic waters. It granted the fin whale hunting license to Hvalur hf., the count...

🐋 #whale #whaling #minkewhales #finwhales

Two Icelandic companies, Hvalur hf and Tjaldtangi, have been given permits to hunt whales in the waters of #Iceland for the next 5 years. They can hunt 209 #finwhales & 217 #minkewhales each year

news.mongabay.com/2024/12/hund...

UW study finds leading cause of whale deaths New research shows that the top threat to whales around the globe has changed. But it wouldn't take much to reduce the risk, researchers say.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... #marinelife #finwhales #humpbackwhales #bluewhales #spermwhales #salishsea

Iceland permits whale hunting amid sharp criticism The government grants a licence to Iceland's sole whaling firm - a move condemned by animal welfare groups.

🐋 #whales #whaling
🇮🇸 #Iceland

The Icelandic government has issued a permit for the company Hvalur to kill 128 #finwhales during the 2024 season; 99 near Greenland/West lceland & another 29 near East lceland/Faroe Islands.

Hvalur's 2023 permit was for 161 fin whales

Iceland issues new whaling permit, draws animal welfare rebuke Iceland has issued a new licence to its sole remaining whaling company, enabling it to continue hunting this season, the government said on Tuesday, drawing a sharp response from campaigners seeking to protect the animals.

Not a great day for #finwhales

Today, Iceland issued a license to kill ~128 fins this season

And Japan announced a quota of 59 fins -
www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20...

Whaling's back, and getting bigger.
It'll grow from here.
🐳🌍🦑

May 18 article in Discover Magazine discussing a possible increase in #Orca preying on #FinWhales. Cites 2023 study published in Aquatic Mammals. (A
Study linked below.) Quotes researchers Robert Pitman and Alisa Schulman-Janiger.

Records of Fatal Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Attacks on Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus) with an Emphasis on Baja California, Mexico - ProQuest Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

#cetacea

This article is from 2023, but I just became aware of it. It appears that #Orca may be preying on #finwhales more than in the recent pass.

Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring Newly sequenced genomes of blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean contain "unexpectedly high" levels of fin whale DNA, hinting that the two species have been interbreeding much more than previously realize...

UNDER THE SEA... The Emergence Of "Flue Whales."

#Nature #DNA #Genomics #Hybrid #BlueWhales #FinWhales

Japan plans to commercially hunt vulnerable fin whales, enraging conservationists Japan has announced plans to add fin whales — the second-largest animal on Earth — to its list of commercial whaling species, which currently includes Bryde's, sei and minke whales.

🐋 #Whales #finwhales
#whaling 🇯🇵 #Japan

"According to the IWC's most recently published whaling data, Japan took 25 sei whales, 187 Bryde's whales and 58 minke whales in 2022."