Future Prospectives

With increased conservation and greater precautions, the sperm whale population can increase. Greater conservation efforts include reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change, more careful ways of fishing, and oil spill precautions. However, it will take many years as sperm whales have a long reproduction and maturation time and produce a low amount of offspring. Because of this, the sperm whales can easier be depleted and will take longer to recover from population die-offs. Based off a study about the change in population from the end of commercial whaling to today, the sperm whale population has stayed relatively constant. If the whales population does not stay constant over the next fifty to one hundred years, there should be a very slight increase in their population. Sperm whales may never reach the same population size as before commercial whaling started. However, they will probably not go extinct soon. The most likely prospective for these whales includes a slight increase in the population over a long period of time; it will take decades to see this increase.

This image shows Western Australia and the Indian Ocean as this is where the mentioned study takes place.