Incorporating visitor experiences into ecologically sustainable dwarf minke whale tourism in the northern Great Barrier Reef

• Main Authors: Birtles, Alastair, Valentine, Peter S, Curnock, Matthew, Arnold, Peter, Dunstan, Andy
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: CRC Reef Research Centre Ltd 2002
• Subjects: Valentine; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; minke whale
• Online Access: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/1044/1/BirtlesValentineCRC42.pdf

There is a commercial swim program based on dwarf minke whales, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, in the northern Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. During the winter months, dive tourists on the live-aboard dive vessels operating along the outer shelf Ribbon Reefs north of Port Douglas, experience close and...