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Synopsis of "We Are All Whalers"
Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperiled animals.
The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales’ entanglement and slow death in rope and nets, and the global shipping routes that bring us readily available goods often lead to death by collision. We—all of us—are whalers, marine scientist and veterinarian Michael J. Moore contends. But we do not have to be.
Drawing on over forty years of fieldwork with humpback, pilot, fin, and, in particular, North Atlantic right whales—a species whose population has declined more than 20 percent since 2017—Moore takes us with him as he performs whale necropsies on animals stranded on beaches, in his independent research alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and as he tracks injured whales to deliver sedatives. The whales’ plight is a complex, confounding, and disturbing one. We learn of existing but poorly enforced conservation laws and of perennial (and often failed) efforts to balance the push for fisheries profit versus the protection of endangered species caught by accident.
But despite these challenges, Moore’s tale is an optimistic one. He shows us how technologies for ropeless fishing and the acoustic tracking of whale migrations make a dramatic difference. And he looks ahead with hope as our growing understanding of these extraordinary creatures fuels an ever-stronger drive for change.
For more information on Moore’s book and research, please visit his webpage at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Moore grew up in the UK. He has a veterinary degree from the University of Cambridge in England, and a PhD from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been based at WHOI in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA since 1986.
He currently provides veterinary support to the Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Division of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, supporting their work with live and dead stranded marine mammals on Cape Cod.
He has studied the effects of trauma from the shipping and fishing industries on North Atlantic right whale (NARW) survival and welfare. He is currently assessing NARW health using aerial photogrammetry, and working with a group of stakeholders to establish On Demand fishing systems as a viable tool to remove line from the water column.
Thank you for this opportunity to learn more about whales from an expert. I am currently working on an eco fiction novel about whales for teens and teens interwoven with scientific information about whales. We Are All whales is exactly the book I need to anchor my work.
I am very interested in your organization and would like to learn more. I live in Ohio but we are planning a move to the coast soon.
THANK YOU, Dr. Moore, for all you do for our planet and for whales!!! We are really “blowing it” when it comes to protecting our cetaceans, and I truly appreciate your work!