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, Pho...