Gotham Whale founder, Paul Sieswerda, is on a mission to document the rebounding humpback whale population in the New York City Harbor. Legislation passed in the 1970s, like the Clean Water Act, has contributed to the resurging numbers of the whale population.

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31 thoughts on “Humpback Whales In New York Citys Harbor | Nightly News Films”
  1. This is heartwarming, but i'm also afraid for them due to the risk of getting hit by shipping.

    2:15 Menhaden … everyone I know here on Long Isle calls them "moss bunker". ASIDE: To explain for non locals – theyre a slimy bloody and bony bait fish (with gamey tasting darkish oily flesh – not a good eating fish, but excellent for chum, chunk fishing, and making dried fish food) that feed on algae. Local top predators (Bluefish, Striped Bass, and the occasional Bull or Dusky Shark) love them … they herd them into bait balls, easily spotted by passers by as a churning patch of water filled with flapping tails, diving birds, and jumping fish. A common sight in late summer and early fall.

  2. I live in nyc for 54 years and never seen a whale in the harbor.. this is exciting news means the water quality is getting better.. there was a time when the harbor was filthy and if you feel in you had to go to the hospital but yea this is great news

  3. Not buying this altruism and this businessman posing as a bioactivist extolling the virtues of a clean NYC harbor and Hudson River. NYC still hauls millions of tons of refuse everyday out to the NYC horizon and dumps it in the ocean, killing these whales' normal feedstock of krill while driving these whales into the fresh water / salt water mix zone, which is detrimental to these whales desperately following it's displaced food supply. This dude is polluting the water around these whales with diesel emissions from his tour boats. He grins while the cash register rings, while the whales groan.

  4. in 2016 I passed one in the Long Island sound near the Throggs neck. 
    I was very concerned because an extremely busy area, many ships and other traffic.
    Seems likely an accident was in the making. I hope they have learned how to avoid the dangers. In recent years I have seen many air breathing mammals along the New Jersey coast and adjacent waters.
    The water quality has changed tremendously in the last 60 years.
    I can recall as a boy, a situation that I knew of, on the Hudson. At the time there was a floating restaurant. 
    A drunken girl fell off of the gangplank,and a man jumped in to save her. The girl was fine, the man went to the hospital for two weeks because of the polluted water.

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