Two environmental groups asked an U.S. government agency to expand the area that protects a kind of whale. The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration Fisheries estimated there are about 30 North Pacific right whales.
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Environmental groups said that the proposed critical habitat for North Pacific right whales would require special management considerations and protections like those that are already enforced to protect North Atlantic right whales.