In the last weeks, the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary was engaged in actively ... successful in freeing two whales off Maui on January 8 and 9, 2025.

Over 400 volunteers for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary and the Pacific Whale Foundation ...

Lines wrapped around a humpback whale in waters in Kahana off West Maui were cut as part of a whale rescue on Jan. 9. Another whale rescue took place on Jan. 8 off Lahaina. Courtesy photo Two ...

and The Maui News. After a local tour boat operator reported a stuck whale, staff at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary — a nationally recognized and protected whale ...

On the islands of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Molokaʻi and Hawai‘i, volunteers collected data from 30 sites. A total of 183 whales were ...

Federal wildlife officials say two humpback whales were recently freed of life-threatening entanglements in fishing lines in separate incidents off Maui ... National Marine Sanctuary team was ...

Hundreds of volunteers took to the coastal shorelines across the state on Saturday for the first of three scheduled Sanctuary ...

Watch as a humpback whale tangled in fishing line was freed. Staff from the NOAA Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary found the whale swimming off the Maui coast before leaping ...

Once again, trained responders from the sanctuary jumped into action, this time discovering an adult humpback wrapped in an even heavier gauge line. The line was around the animal's body and ...