HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novaeangliae): Eastern North Pacific Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Although the International Whaling Commission
(IWC) only considered one stock (Donovan 1991), there is now good evidence for multiple populations of humpback whales in the North Pacific (Johnson and Wolman 1984; Baker et al. 1990). Aerial, vessel, and photo-identification surveys, and genetic analyses indicate that within the U.S. EEZ, there ar...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.294.9361 2023-05-15T15:43:43+02:00 HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novaeangliae): Eastern North Pacific Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Although the International Whaling Commission The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.9361 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2002whhb-en.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.9361 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2002whhb-en.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2002whhb-en.pdf Bering Sea or Aleutian Islands. This stock structure text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T21:44:48Z (IWC) only considered one stock (Donovan 1991), there is now good evidence for multiple populations of humpback whales in the North Pacific (Johnson and Wolman 1984; Baker et al. 1990). Aerial, vessel, and photo-identification surveys, and genetic analyses indicate that within the U.S. EEZ, there are at least three relatively separate populations that migrate between their respective summer/fall feeding areas and winter/spring calving and mating areas (Calambokidis et al. 2001, Baker et al. 1998): 1) winter/spring populations in coastal Central America and Mexico which migrate to the coast of California to southern British Columbia in summer/fall (Steiger et al. 1991, Calambokidis et al. 1993)- referred to as the eastern North Pacific stock (Figure 1); 2) winter/spring populations of the Hawaiian Islands which migrate to northern British Text Bering Sea Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae Aleutian Islands Unknown Bering Sea Pacific |
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(IWC) only considered one stock (Donovan 1991), there is now good evidence for multiple populations of humpback whales in the North Pacific (Johnson and Wolman 1984; Baker et al. 1990). Aerial, vessel, and photo-identification surveys, and genetic analyses indicate that within the U.S. EEZ, there are at least three relatively separate populations that migrate between their respective summer/fall feeding areas and winter/spring calving and mating areas (Calambokidis et al. 2001, Baker et al. 1998): 1) winter/spring populations in coastal Central America and Mexico which migrate to the coast of California to southern British Columbia in summer/fall (Steiger et al. 1991, Calambokidis et al. 1993)- referred to as the eastern North Pacific stock (Figure 1); 2) winter/spring populations of the Hawaiian Islands which migrate to northern British |
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HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novaeangliae): Eastern North Pacific Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Although the International Whaling Commission |
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HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novaeangliae): Eastern North Pacific Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Although the International Whaling Commission |
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