Whale watch or no watch: the Australian whale watching tourism industry and climate change

• Published in: Regional Environmental Change
• Main Authors: Meynecke, Jan-Olaf, Richards, Russell, Sahin, Oz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified; Griffith; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/143011; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-016-1034-z

Whale watching is a billion dollar industry worldwide. One of the most popular species for whale watching is the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). The migratory corridors, feeding, resting and calving sites which are used for whale watching may be influenced by changing ocean currents and wat...