NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE (Eubalaena glacialis): Western Atlantic Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Greenland; Newfoundland; Norway; Cape Farewell; Eubalaena glacialis; Iceland; North Atlantic; North Atlantic right whale; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.3515; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/2013/ao2013_rightwhale-west-atl.pdf

The western North Atlantic right whale population ranges primarily from calving grounds in coastal waters of the southeastern United States to feeding grounds in New England waters and the Canadian Bay of Fundy, Scotian Shelf, and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Mellinger et al. (2011) reported acoustic detections of right whales near the nineteenth-century whaling grounds east of southern Greenland, but the number of whales and their origin is unknown. However, Knowlton et al. (1992) reported several long-distance movements as far north as Newfoundland, the Labrador Basin, and southeast of Greenland. In addition, resightings of photographically identified individuals have been made off Iceland, in the old Cape Farewell whaling ground east of Greenland (Hamilton et al. 2007), northern Norway (Jacobsen et al. 2004), and the Azores (Silva et al.