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COSEWIC Status Appraisal Summary on the North Pacific Right Whale Eubalaena japonica in Canada ENDANGERED 2015 COSEWIC status appraisal summaries are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk in Canada. [...] The numbers in the eastern North Pacific are extremely low, with estimates of fewer than 50 individuals in the southeastern Bering Sea, the only known area of regular occurrence of this population. [...] Sightings of Right Whales in the Gulf of Alaska are far fewer in number than in the Bering Sea, but there has been relatively little survey effort in the Gulf, notably in offshore waters where the species was historically widely distributed (Brownell et al. [...] Sightings of North Pacific Right Whales in the northeastern Pacific south of the Gulf of Alaska are extremely rare. [...] The nature and severity of these threats in the Canadian Pacific are unlikely to have diminished and in some cases may be increasing.