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grey whales are protected from commercial whaling since 1948.
There are 3 breeding lagoons in Mexico, to protect the whales from boating, fishing, and coastal development

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Common name: gray whale
Scientific name: Eschrichtius robustus
Conservation Status: endangered
Geographic range: once used to be in the Northern Hemisphere, but now live in the North Pacific Ocean
Population: in 2016, there were 27,000 gray whales recorded
Ecological, socio- political, or economic pressures: hunted by commercial whaling, dam/bridge construction

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If the species were to go extinct ecosystems would lose a vital part as Gray Whales as bottom-feeders create gigantic mud plumes that "re-suspend large volumes of nutrients" helping to provide for the ecosystem on the seafloor. Without this it would be harder for seabirds and other organisms without crustaceans that rely on those nutrients.

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/the_arctic_meltdown/slideshow_text/gray_whale.html

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They live mostly in shallow coastal waters in the north Pacific Ocean but sometimes go into deep waters during migration but stay mostly in shallow waters.