Spatial and Seasonal Distribution of American Whaling and Whales in the Age of Sail
American whalemen sailed out of ports on the east coast of the United States and in California from the 18th to early 20th centuries, searching for whales throughout the world’s oceans. From an initial focus on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and right whales (Eubalaena spp.), the array of tar...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3338773 2023-05-15T15:35:59+02:00 Spatial and Seasonal Distribution of American Whaling and Whales in the Age of Sail Smith, Tim D. Reeves, Randall R. Josephson, Elizabeth A. Lund, Judith N. 2012-04-27 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338773 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558102 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034905 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338773 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034905 Smith et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Article Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034905 2013-09-04T06:23:07Z American whalemen sailed out of ports on the east coast of the United States and in California from the 18th to early 20th centuries, searching for whales throughout the world’s oceans. From an initial focus on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and right whales (Eubalaena spp.), the array of targeted whales expanded to include bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), and gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus). Extensive records of American whaling in the form of daily entries in whaling voyage logbooks contain a great deal of information about where and when the whalemen found whales. We plotted daily locations where the several species of whales were observed, both those caught and those sighted but not caught, on world maps to illustrate the spatial and temporal distribution of both American whaling activity and the whales. The patterns shown on the maps provide the basis for various inferences concerning the historical distribution of the target whales prior to and during this episode of global whaling. Text Balaena mysticetus Megaptera novaeangliae Physeter macrocephalus PubMed Central (PMC) PLoS ONE 7 4 e34905 |
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American whalemen sailed out of ports on the east coast of the United States and in California from the 18th to early 20th centuries, searching for whales throughout the world’s oceans. From an initial focus on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and right whales (Eubalaena spp.), the array of targeted whales expanded to include bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), and gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus). Extensive records of American whaling in the form of daily entries in whaling voyage logbooks contain a great deal of information about where and when the whalemen found whales. We plotted daily locations where the several species of whales were observed, both those caught and those sighted but not caught, on world maps to illustrate the spatial and temporal distribution of both American whaling activity and the whales. The patterns shown on the maps provide the basis for various inferences concerning the historical distribution of the target whales prior to and during this episode of global whaling. |
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