Population assessment of western gray whales in 2006. Paper SC/59/BRG41 presented to the International Whaling Commission

• Main Authors: Justin Cooke, Justin G. Cooke, David W. Weller, A L. Bradford, Er M. Burdin, Robert L. Brownell
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Reeves; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.9399; http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/wgwap3_inf_18.pdf

A population assessment of the western gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) was conducted using photo-identification data collected off Sakhalin Island under the joint Russia-U.S. programme from 1994 to 2006. This is an update of the assessments by Reeves et al (2005) and Cooke et al. (2006) which use...