Bowhead Whales, and Not Right Whales, Were the Primary Target of 16th- to 17th-Century Basque Whalers in the Western North Atlantic
Basque whalers travelled annually to the Strait of Belle Isle and Gulf of St. Lawrence to hunt whales. The hunting that occurred during this period is of primary significance for the North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776), because it has been interpreted as the largest human-...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.545.136 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic61-1-61.pdf |