Revised 01/15/2011 FIN WHALE (Balaenoptera physalus physalus): Hawaiian Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

throughout all oceans and seas of the world from tropical to polar latitudes. They have been considered rare in Hawaiian waters and are absent to rare N30 in eastern tropical Pacific waters (Hamilton et al. 2009). Balcomb (1987) observed 8-12 fin whales in a N25 multispecies feeding assemblage on 20...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 1994
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.233.6662
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2010whfi-hi.pdf
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Summary:throughout all oceans and seas of the world from tropical to polar latitudes. They have been considered rare in Hawaiian waters and are absent to rare N30 in eastern tropical Pacific waters (Hamilton et al. 2009). Balcomb (1987) observed 8-12 fin whales in a N25 multispecies feeding assemblage on 20 May 1966 approx. 250 mi. south of Honolulu. Additional sightings were