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Whales
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noun
Bay of, an inlet of the Ross Sea, in Antarctica: location of Little America.
Example Sentences
Nets along the east coast also routinely entangle humpback whales on their annual migration to and from the tropics.
Humpback whales were hardest hit, accounting for 77 of the cases.
Other whale species include North Pacific gray whales, the North Atlantic right whale, minke, sperm, fin and bowhead whales.
Since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by long line ropes that commercial crabbers use to haul up cages from the sea floor.
The number of whales getting tangled up in fishing nets, line, buoys and other miscellaneous rope off the coasts of the United States hit a record high in 2024, with California taking the ignominious lead.
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