black areas are places of sperm whale endangerment. North Carolina and the southern region have a large amount of sperm whale endangerment as well as over 22 other places in the world.
History of sperm whale
This 1,000 pound 11.5 ft. is endangered in the North Carolina area. These creatures prefer to live in temperate waters of oceans and seas all around the world. There is about 200,000 sperm whale remaining today.
Sperm whales becoming extinct today is mainly because of fishers who are hurting them with gillnets, driftnets, and purse seine operations. These are all ways that fishers take large nets to scoop up several fish at a time. While they are doing this the net will attach to a sperm whale and cause it to harm them and even kill. Another really rare reason for sperm whale decline is ship strikes. Sperm whale swim just enough under water where any ship that comes by is going to strike it. When the ship comes in contact with the whale it will automatically bring the whale all the way down and result in an immediate death.
It is said that during the whale era is when many whales were killed. They estimated that 1,000,000 whales were killed and used for goods. The main reason for this was because people were killing for oils, food, and clothing. The reason for this species was hunted much more than any other is because of their spermaceti oil which was located in the whales head.
Sperm whales becoming extinct today is mainly because of fishers who are hurting them with gillnets, driftnets, and purse seine operations. These are all ways that fishers take large nets to scoop up several fish at a time. While they are doing this the net will attach to a sperm whale and cause it to harm them and even kill. Another really rare reason for sperm whale decline is ship strikes. Sperm whale swim just enough under water where any ship that comes by is going to strike it. When the ship comes in contact with the whale it will automatically bring the whale all the way down and result in an immediate death.
It is said that during the whale era is when many whales were killed. They estimated that 1,000,000 whales were killed and used for goods. The main reason for this was because people were killing for oils, food, and clothing. The reason for this species was hunted much more than any other is because of their spermaceti oil which was located in the whales head.