Gray whale Eschrichtius robustus in Russian Far East: the history of discovery, research, and harvesting

• Published in: Izvestiya TINRO
• Main Authors: Sergey A. Blokhin, Denis I. Litovka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Transactions of the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography 2014
• Subjects: серый кит; открытие; история изучения; мониторинг добычи; дальний восток; Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling; SH1-691; Magadan; Okhotsk; Pacific; Tilting; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2014-179-65-80; https://doaj.org/article/ab5084c0fb704ea9ab0f63f4a8554d43

Discovery and research of gray whale in Chukotka are outlined and recent data on its whaling are presented on the base of authors’ and cited sources. The species was described for the first time in the late 16th century. Almost all its studies concerned the California-Chukotka population (East Pacif...