Read the following passage.
A. In July 2017, a large number of North Atlantic right whales were found dead in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Fisheries and Oceans Canada responded by closing the snow crab fishery for the year, and it asked commercial ships to slow down for the rest of the summer. The same year, rising deaths in Canada and the United States led to the declaration of an Unusual Mortality Event. The dead, injured and sick whales counted in it make up more than 20 per cent of the population, and in most of these cases the cause was entanglement in fishing gear or a collision with a vessel.
B. Right whales are stocky black whales with no dorsal fin, and they can grow to about 16 metres. They feed on copepods and other tiny crustaceans by swimming slowly with their mouths open. Whalers named them the right whales to hunt because they floated after they were killed. European whalers hunted them off eastern Canada from the 1500s until a ban in 1935. Rough patches of skin called callosities grow on each whale's head, and researchers use their unique patterns to tell individuals apart. In October 2025, NOAA Fisheries estimated that 384 were alive at the start of 2024.
C. Entanglement is one of the gravest dangers the whales face. By one estimate, more than 85 per cent of right whales have been caught in fishing gear at least once. Ropes can cut into the body and cause serious injuries and infections, and an entangled whale may tow gear for months or even years before it is freed, sheds it or dies. A gap of three years between births is considered healthy, but females now have calves every 7 to 10 years on average, and biologists believe the stress of entanglement is one of the reasons.
D. Canada's fishing rules now depend on finding whales. Aircraft, vessels and underwater microphones on buoys and gliders watch and listen for them. When a right whale is detected, an area of about 2,000 square kilometres is closed to lobster, crab and other fixed gear fisheries for 15 days. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence after June 1, a repeat detection during days 9 to 15 keeps the area closed for the whole season. An area cannot reopen until two flights have found no right whales there. Canada released a Whalesafe Fishing Gear Strategy in February 2026, and by January 2026 43,348 units of lost gear and 978 kilometres of rope had been removed from its waters and shoreline.
E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.
Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.