The Gulf of Maine, Scotian Shelf, Grand Banks, Labrador Sea, and adjacent shelf and shelf-edge waters. Productive seasonal upwelling supports dense zooplankton blooms (esp. Calanus finmarchicus) that draw baleen whale aggregations.
Notable species (in the vault)
(further south in the SE US).
Pressures
- Heavy commercial shipping creates Ship strikes risk along
approaches to Boston, New York, Halifax.
- Lobster and snow crab fisheries contribute Entanglement risk
in coastal waters.