Revised 12/30/98 HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novaeangliae): Central North Pacific Stock

The humpback whale is distributed worldwide in all ocean basins, though it is less common in Arctic waters. In winter, most humpback whales occur in the temperate and tropical waters of the North and South Hemispheres (from 10°-23 ° latitude). Humpback whales in the North Pacific are seasonal migran...

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Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range, Chukchi Sea (johnson, Wolman The
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Arctic
Bering Sea
Canada
Gulf of Alaska
Pacific
Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Zooplankton
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.9371
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ak1998whhb-pcnn.pdf
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Summary:The humpback whale is distributed worldwide in all ocean basins, though it is less common in Arctic waters. In winter, most humpback whales occur in the temperate and tropical waters of the North and South Hemispheres (from 10°-23 ° latitude). Humpback whales in the North Pacific are seasonal migrants that feed on zooplankton and small schooling fishes in the cool, coastal waters of the western United States, western Canada, and the Russian Far East (NMFS 1991). The historic summering range of humpback whales in the North Pacific encompassed coastal and inland waters around the Pacific rim from Point Conception, California, north to the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, and west along the Aleutian Islands to the

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