Long-Finned Pilot Whales, Globicephala melaena, driven ashore in Ireland, 1800–1973
Naturally occurring strandings or inshore migrations of pilot whales, Globicephala melaena, have been utilized on an opportunistic basis with yields of from 25 to approximately 300 animals. Single animals strand occasionally. Strandings or captures occur in all months except September. The commonest...
| Published in: | Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
1975
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f75-131 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f75-131 |
| Summary: | Naturally occurring strandings or inshore migrations of pilot whales, Globicephala melaena, have been utilized on an opportunistic basis with yields of from 25 to approximately 300 animals. Single animals strand occasionally. Strandings or captures occur in all months except September. The commonest cetacean in Ireland is the common porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) but there is no fishery for it. It is sometimes entangled in nets. Commercial whaling from 1908 to 1923 took mainly fin whales and other species of large cetaceans. There has been no commercial whaling in Ireland subsequently. |
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