Mystery of the Missing Humpbacks Solved by Soviet Data
A paper in Marine Fisheries Review concludes that the high number of unreported catches by Soviet whalers of humpbacks in the Southern Ocean decimated this population so severely that unlike humpback populations elsewhere, it has not yet recovered.
| Published in: | Science |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.324_1132 https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.324_1132 |
| Summary: | A paper in Marine Fisheries Review concludes that the high number of unreported catches by Soviet whalers of humpbacks in the Southern Ocean decimated this population so severely that unlike humpback populations elsewhere, it has not yet recovered. |
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