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The team at the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS) has been observing fewer and fewer fin whales in the northern parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence<\/a>. Is this decline caused by emigration due to a shortage or geographic shift of their prey? Or perhaps an uptick in collision-related mortalities? These are some of the questions that are being addressed in a study published in the Marine Ecology Progress Series<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team at the Mingan Island Cetacean Study (MICS) has been observing fewer and fewer fin whales in the northern parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Is this decline caused by emigration due to a shortage or geographic shift of their prey? Or perhaps an uptick in collision-related mortalities? 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