BLUE WHALE (Balaenoptera musculus): Western North Atlantic Stock

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Arctic; Belle Isle; Canada; Greenland; Lawrence River; Mansfield; Strait of Belle Isle; Tera; Balaenoptera musculus; Blue whale; Newfoundland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.8185; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao2000whbl-wn.pdf

The distribution of the blue whale, Balaenop tera musculus, in the western North Atlantic generally extends from the Arctic to at least mid-latitudes. Blue whales are most frequently sighted in the waters off eastern Canada, with the majority of recent records from the Gulf of St. Law rence (Sears e...