Population modelling of humpback whales in East Australia (BSE1) and Oceania (BSE2, BSE3, BSF2)

• Main Authors: Jackson, J. A., Zerbini, A., Clapham, P., Constantine, R., Garrigue, C., Hauser, N., Poole, M. M., Baker, C.S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Pacific; Tonga
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505167/

Humpback sub-stocks BSE1 (East Australia), BSE2 (New Caledonia), BSE3 (Tonga) and BSF2 (French Polynesia) show significant genetic differentiation, yet share common high latitude feeding grounds between 130E-100W and were subject to 41,871 whaling catches across this feeding ground between 1900-1978...