article_snippet.sent: humpback whale want to break up global population into 14 sub-populations.
article_snippet.sent: Ten of humpback whale will be 'not at risk',
article_snippet.sent: (Noaa) Fisheries in Maryland, is to reclassify the global population of humpback whales into 14 ‘population segments’, based on how the global population of humpback whales have recovered.
article_snippet.sent: Noaa officials said decisions on which whale groups to recommend were based on many factors, including the risks whale groups face.
article_snippet.sent: The single largest threat to humpbacks is fishing activities that result in the whales becoming tangled in fishing gear and drowning.
article_snippet.sent: The proposal, by Noaa Fisheries in Maryland, is to reclassify the global population of humpback whales into 14 ‘population segments’ (shown), based on how the global population of humpback whales have recovered.
article_snippet.sent: Sarah Goddard, species policy officer at WWF-UK, said there were other sub-populations of humpback whales aside from these 14 for which data was poor.
article_snippet.sent: Concern remains about other discrete and small sub-populations of humpback whales for which information about their status is lacking,’ she said.
article_snippet.sent: Here a humpback whale dives among an aggregation of short-tailed shearwaters at Cape Cheerful, Alaska.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists still aren't sure why the whales jump out of the water .
article_snippet.sent: Humpbacks are a really complicated species to really review for declaring these distinct population segments,’ she told The Guardian.
highlights_snippet.sent: humpback whale want to break up global population into 14 sub-populations .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ten of humpback whale will be 'not at risk',