"Sea of Whales" as Super Groups of Humpbacks Converge off the NSW & Tasmanian Coasts - Conservationists say the groupings which are on a scale never seen before indicate the total whale population must be approaching that of pre whaling days
(www.smh.com.au)https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/sea-of-whales-first-sightings-off-australia-of-huge-humpback-pods-20210602-p57xc9.htmlThe pods which range from 20 to 90 mammals had previously only been documented in the southern hemisphere off South Africa, typical sightings of migrating humpbacks are one or two animals, and so to be amid the super pods off the South Coast was remarkable.
Previous estimates of just a few hundred humpback whales off eastern Australian waters by the 1960s, the ban on whaling and other protective measures have created one of conservation’s success stories, while populations continue to grow at more than 10 per cent a year. SMH.
