15 August 2022 On both shores of the St. Lawrence, many folks are concerned about the paucity of whales observed in the river in recent weeks. Although it is still too early to…
7 January 2019 It all started with Marie-Ève, my Editor-in-Chief, asking me, “Would you like to spend a week with skeletons, Jass?” Next thing I knew, I was at GREMM’s skeleton facility, the…
16 August 2018 “In 51 years of watching whales, I’ve never seen that!” At the end of the line, the voice of our observer trembles with excitement. Off Pointe-des-Monts, on August 12 and…
12 January 2018 In 2017, 18 right whale carcasses have been found in the North Atlantic near the Canadian and US coasts. For an endangered population with fewer than 450 individuals, such a…
30 October 2017 That's it, the marathon of presentations is over! The 22nd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, held in Halifax from October 23 to 27, covered a broad range…
19 October 2017 The 2017 season is over! Autumn is already well upon us in Tadoussac, the sailboats have been taken out of the marina and parked in the dry dock, and soon…
4 October 2017 Hunters on the Prowl! A few weeks ago, we observed a beluga whale spitting on the water surface to hunt herring. This week we witnessed our white whales in the midst…
29 September 2017 This week, we are giving the floor to Alexandre Bernier-Graveline, UQAM Master’s candidate in bioaccumulation and the effects of environmental contaminants on the beluga population of the St. Lawrence Estuary,…
6 September 2017 This seems to be the best way to describe the whale season to date. [caption id="attachment_27257" align="alignright" width="250"] Tingley and her calf © Renaud Pintiaux[/caption] Several humpback whales, possibly as…
6 September 2017 From May to October, five days a week, the Bleuvet criss-crosses the St. Lawrence River in search of herds of belugas to photograph and to study their social interactions. This…
