Scientists spied as many as 150 of the animals hungrily munching on krill.
also notes that fin whale populations were increasing as of its most-recent assessment in 2018, when the body changed the species’s status from Endangered to Vulnerable.
Seeing this volume of whales in the Southern Ocean has been unheard of for decades. Before a 1982 ban on commercial whaling, some 725,000 of the animals were killed for commercial purposes, knocking their totals down to. Today, the IUCN estimates their total population around 100,000. Though this most-recent survey offers a small window onto the current count, the researchers’ estimates on the species abundance in the area are a hopeful sign. Their observations and calculations indicate that as many as 3,618 fin whales could be in the deneset area around Elephant Island alone.
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