Whale Migrations: How New UN Treaty Aims to Protect Species on the High Seas

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The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is one of the larger rorqual species, with adults ranging in length from 12–16 m and weighing around 25–30 metric tons. Photo: Stock

A humpback whale we tagged while it was feeding off the Western Antarctic Peninsula made a nearly 19000 km-round trip in 265 days, travelling north from Antarctica to its breeding area off Colombia and back.

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