College of the Atlantic researchers add 8,000th whale to humpback catalog

This photo, of the 8,000th whale to be listed the North Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog database at Allied Whale, was taken in November 2013 off Tromso, Norway, by Audun Rikardsen of Arctic Coast Photography. Allied Whale, the marine mammal research arm of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, created the research database in 1977 has has curated it ever since.