Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland
Bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, belonging to the Davis Strait/Baffin Bay stock, have historically in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, including waters along the west coast of Greenland in and near the entrance of Disko Bay. Aerial surveys of the Disko Bay region during late winter (1981, 1982, 1990,...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/1924 2024-09-15T17:56:54+00:00 Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland Reeves, Randall R. Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter 1996-01-12 application/pdf https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1924 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v15i2.6641 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1924/5173 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1924 doi:10.3402/polar.v15i2.6641 Polar Research; Vol. 15 No. 2 (1996); 115-125 1751-8369 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1996 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v15i2.6641 2024-06-28T03:10:15Z Bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, belonging to the Davis Strait/Baffin Bay stock, have historically in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, including waters along the west coast of Greenland in and near the entrance of Disko Bay. Aerial surveys of the Disko Bay region during late winter (1981, 1982, 1990,1991, 1993 and 1994) showed that it was still visited regularly by a few tens of whales. Commercial whaling on bowheads in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait ended in about 1915, but occasional killing continued until as recently as the 1970s. The low numbers of bowheads observed off West Greenland in recent years are consistent with the results of surveys of the summering grounds in the eastern Canadian Arctic, indicating that any recovery has been exceedingly slow. The only conclusion supported by the data is that the current stock size is a small fraction of what it was prior to commercial whaling. Article in Journal/Newspaper Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Balaena mysticetus Davis Strait Disko Bay Greenland Polar Research Polar Research Polar Research 15 2 115 125 |
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Bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, belonging to the Davis Strait/Baffin Bay stock, have historically in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, including waters along the west coast of Greenland in and near the entrance of Disko Bay. Aerial surveys of the Disko Bay region during late winter (1981, 1982, 1990,1991, 1993 and 1994) showed that it was still visited regularly by a few tens of whales. Commercial whaling on bowheads in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait ended in about 1915, but occasional killing continued until as recently as the 1970s. The low numbers of bowheads observed off West Greenland in recent years are consistent with the results of surveys of the summering grounds in the eastern Canadian Arctic, indicating that any recovery has been exceedingly slow. The only conclusion supported by the data is that the current stock size is a small fraction of what it was prior to commercial whaling. |
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Reeves, Randall R. Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland |
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Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland |
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Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland |
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Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland |
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Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland |
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Recent status of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off West Greenland |
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recent status of bowhead whales, balaena mysticetus, in the wintering grounds off west greenland |
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