The potential beginning of a postwhaling recovery in New Zealand humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae )

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Gibbs, Nadine J., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Gibbs, E. John, Heberley, Joseph A., Olavarría, Carlos
• Other Authors: Atomic Energy Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2017
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; New Zealand; Tonga; Antarc*; Antarctica; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12468; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmms.12468; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mms.12468

Abstract Between the 1940s and 1970s Southern Hemisphere populations of humpback whales (including eastern Australia and Oceania populations) were hunted to near extinction by extensive commercial whaling activities in Antarctica, with fewer whales taken in shore whaling operations in New Zealand, A...