The Bay of Biscay: from whaling to whalewatching

• Main Author: Lens, S. (Santiago)
• Other Authors: Gutiérrez, M.J. (María José)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo
• Subjects: Sarmiento; Fin whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/8803

The Bay of Biscay is an oceanic region closely related to cetaceans. It was from localities around these shores that a long whaling tradition started in the XI century. For more than 600 hundred years the Right whale was caught along these coasts until the decline of whaling in the XVIII century. Mo...