Revised 12/15/2003 BLUE WHALE (Balaenoptera musculus): Eastern North Pacific Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

formally considered only one management stock for blue whales in the North Pacific (Donovan 1991), but now this ocean is thought to include more than one population (Ohsumi and Wada 1972; Braham 1991), possibly as many as five (Reeves et al. 1998). This report covers one population that feeds in Cal...

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