Soviet Illegal Whaling: The Devil and the Details

• Main Authors: Ivashchenko, Yulia V., Clapham, Phillip J., Brownell, Jr. , Robert L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Fisheries; Antarctic; Pacific; Rotten; The Antarctic; aleut; Antarc*; Balaenoptera musculus; baleen whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Physeter macrocephalus
• Online Access: http://aquaticcommons.org/9659/; http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/mfr733/mfr7331.pdf; http://aquaticcommons.org/9659/1/mfr7331.pdf

In 1948, the U.S.S.R. began a global campaign of illegal whaling that lasted for three decades and, together with the poorly managed “legal” whaling of other nations, seriously depleted whale populations. Although the general story of this whaling has been told and the catch record largely corrected...