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- Researcher Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen reports thousands of baleen whales now feeding along East Greenland’s coast.
- In 2024 about 4,000 humpback, 6,000 fin and 6,000 minke whales visited the Greenland Sea.
- Summer sea-ice cover declined sharply after 2000, opening near-shore feeding habitat.
- Capelin shifted summer feeding grounds toward East Greenland, attracting the whales and creating new predation pressure.
