Inshore Records of Cetacea for Eastern Canada, 1949–68

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Authors: Sergeant, D. E., Mansfield, A. W., Beck, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1970
• Subjects: General Medicine; Newfoundland; Canada; Cape Chidley; Balaenoptera musculus; Balaenoptera physalus; Delphinapterus leucas; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f70-216; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f70-216

New and previously published records are given for 19 species of Cetacea stranded naturally, netted, or shot on the coasts of eastern Canada from Cape Chidley, Labrador (60°30′N), to the United States border (45°N), from 1949 to 1968. The most commonly recorded species were Globicephala melaena, Phocoena phocoena, Balaenoptera physalus, and Delphinapterus leucas. Occurrence of Stenella coeruleoalba at Sable Island was confirmed. Four blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) stranded naturally, three of them in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence. Groups of fin whales (B. physalus) were twice stranded by ice in western Newfoundland. The greatest number of species stranded at Sable Island (44°N, 60°W).