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[โ€“] Jayjader@jlai.lu 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Does this mean blue whales are on the way out, given the lower amount of krill in the oceans nowadays, or have they just stabilized at a lower population? I imagine human whaling practices have muddied the data, but I'm ignorant as to the extent.

[โ€“] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't know what the projections are but seems like populations are growing/stable

graph showing 2 of 3 measurements with increasing blue whale abundance estimates over time up to 2017

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2024-12/2023-sar-blue-whale-enp.pdf

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