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The population may include up to 90,000–100,000 animals worldwide, with two-thirds inhabiting the [[Northern Hemisphere]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
For management purposes, the U.S. population is divided into three groups: the Eastern Tropical Pacific stock (11,000–13,000 animals) and the Hawaiian stock (350–500) and an endangered stock of about 100 whales in the Gulf of Mexico.<ref name="GOM Bryde's whale">{{cite web|title=Gulf of Mexico Bryde's Whale|url=https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/gulf-mexico-brydes-whale |website=www.fisheries,noaa.gov |publisher=NOAA |access-date=15 April 2019 |ref=rikbryde}}</ref> As of 2016, the Bryde's whale is considered to be [[critically endangered]] in [[New Zealand]]
Prior to 2006, only two confirmed sightings of Bryde's whale had been reported in the eastern North Pacific north of Baja California—one in January 1963, only a kilometer off [[La Jolla]] (originally misidentified as a fin whale), and another in October 1991 west of [[Monterey Bay]]. Between August 2006 and September 2010, six sightings were made by scientists in the [[Southern California Bight]]. Five were west of [[San Clemente Island]], and one between San Clemente Island and [[Santa Catalina Island (California)|Santa Catalina Island]]. All but one involved single individuals.<ref name="Smultea2012">{{cite journal |last1=Smultea |first1=Mari |title=Short Note: Bryde's Whale (Balaenoptera brydei/edeni) Sightings in the Southern California Bight |journal=Aquatic Mammals |date=1 March 2012 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=92–97 |doi=10.1578/am.38.1.2012.92 }}</ref> Another sighting was made off [[Dana Point, California]], on 19 September 2009, which was originally misidentified as a fin whale.
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