Why Is The Northern Bottlenose Whale Endangered?
Why Is The Northern Bottlenose Whale Endangered? The Northern Bottlenose Whale, Scotian Shelf population (NBW-SSP) was listed as Endangered under the federal Species at Risk Act in 2006. Threats to this species include acoustic disturbance, oil and gas activities, entanglement in fishing gear, contaminants, changes to food supply, and vessel strikes. Are bottlenose whales rare?