Whale Watching

Undergoing extensive annual migrations, humpback whales are found throughout the world's oceans. In the North Pacific, humpbacks feed from Northern California to British Columbia, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula and migrate to Hawaii, Mexico, Japan, Costa Rica, and the Philippines for mating and calving purposes (see map). In the North Atlantic, humpback whales feed from the Gulf of Maine through Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and Norway and migrate primarily to the West Indies, where they mate and calve. In the Southern Hemisphere, humpbacks feed in circum-polar waters around Antarctica and then migrate north to warmer waters for mating and calving.

To learn more about more whale species, we suggest you visit www.acsonline.org.

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