North Atlantic right whales are nearly extinct, a victim of intense whaling in the 19th century and since then of shipping and other human activities. The film Right Whale, Wrong Time tells the story of right whale #2030, an adult female right whale that died tragically after getting entangled in fishing gear. The film includes an interview with Dave Matilla and Charles Mayo of the Center for Coastal Studies (Provincetown), whose team had tried to free of her of the ropes. It also includes Warren Allmon, Director of the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth, where the skeleton of #2030 is on display and its story told through information on whale ecology, evolution, and conservation.

Producer, Director of Photography, and Camera: David O. Brown
Scripting and Editing: David O. Brown
Music and Audio Engineering: William K. Hatch

Additional footage courtesy of NOAA and the New England Aquarium

Photo “Attaching the Right Whale” by Ambroise Louis Garneray, from the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum

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