FLUCTUATIONS IN THE NUMBER OF WHALES OF THE CHUKCHI SEA IN VARIOUS YEARS (O Kolebanii Chislennosti Kitov v Chukotskom More v Raznye Gody)

• Main Author: Sleptsov, M M
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE BAY SAINT LOUIS MS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Biology; Biological Oceanography; *CETACEA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; CHUKCHI SEA; CLASSIFICATION; COASTAL REGIONS; FOOD; MAMMALS; POPULATION; SEA ICE; WALRUSES; WHALING; TRANSLATION; FOREIGN REPORTS; Bering Strait; Chukchi Sea; aleut; baleen whales; Beluga*; Blue whale; Chukchi; Fin whale; minke whale; Sea ice; Aleutian Islands; walrus*
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0704676; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0704676

The total number of whales (fin whale, blue whale and minke whale) that occur in the Chukchi Sea during the summer-autumn period varies from one year to the other as a result of changing ice and food conditions. When the ice and food conditions are favorable, the number of baleen whales is considerable in the S and SE parts of the Chukchi Sea. The operation of the Aleut whaling fleet was successful at such times. The presence of small cetaceans in the Bering Strait and the southern part of the Chukchi Sea enable our whalers to operate successfully from coastal stations, hunting the minke whales, killer whales and belugas. The hunting of walrus must be forbidden due to its small population size. This will not endanger the livelihood of the local people. They can hunt small cetaceans and some of the large whales, such as fin whales and blue whales. Trans. of Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Morfologii Zhivotnykh. Trudy, v34 p54-64 1961, by M. Slessers.