Revised 01/15/2011 BLUE WHALE (Balaenoptera musculus musculus): Central North Pacific Stock

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: 1987; Forney and Brownell 1996; Baja; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Reeves; Balaenoptera musculus; Blue whale; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.233.3386; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2010whbl-cn.pdf

Commission (IWC) has formally considered only one management stock for blue whales in the North Pacific (Donovan 1991), but up to five populations have been proposed (Reeves et al. 1998). Rice (1974) hypothesized that blue whales from Baja California migrated far offshore to fed in the eastern Aleut...