Nice pic.. We see a few of them every once in a while out of the coast of here as well. I never had saw them like in your pic though, mostly when we see them they are swiming by waving a flipper and splashing it on the water. If we are lucky we will see a north atlantic right whale while out. They are protected from a lot of things as there is only roughly around 300 of them in survival right now. They summer off the coast up here in the bay of fundy..