Blue and fin whale acoustics and ecology off Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Author: Širović, Ana
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2006
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Near Islands; Scotia Sea; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Balaenoptera musculus; baleen whale; Blue whale; Fin whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/50d4g0cv

Blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin whales (B. physalus) in the Southern Ocean were subjects of extensive whaling industry during the twentieth century. Their current population numbers remain low, making population monitoring using traditional visual surveys difficult. Both blue and fin whales pro...