Distribution of Whales in the Bering Sea and the Prospects of Development of Whaling Fisheries (Rasprostranenie Kitov v Beringovom More i Vozmozhnosti Razvitiya Kitoboinogo Promysla)

• Main Author: Arsenev,V. A.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; (*CETACEA; *BERING SEA); USSR; DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION; AQUATIC ANIMALS; MAMMALS; *WHALES; *FISHING GROUNDS; TRANSLATIONS; Anadyrskiy Zaliv; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Chukchi Sea; Fox Islands; Gulf of Alaska; Kamchatskiy; Komandorskiye Ostrova; Olyutorskiy; Olyutorskiy Zaliv; Ostrova; Rat Islands; Zaliv; baleen whales; Chukchi; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0722845; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0722845

Considerable changes have occurred in the distribution of various species of whales in the Bering Sea. Generally, the numbers of whales in coastal areas have decreased since 1933. The whales have practically ceased to exist off the east coast of Kamchatka (Avachinskiy z., Kronotskiy z., Kamchatskiy...