Insights From Whaling Logbooks on Whales, Dolphins, and Whaling in the Gulf of Mexico

• Published in: Gulf of Mexico Science
• Main Authors: Reeves, Randall R., Lund, Judith N., Smith, Tim D., Josephson, Elizabeth A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Aquila Digital Community 2011
• Subjects: Bedford; Nantucket; New Bedford; Orca; Orcinus orca; Physeter macrocephalus
• Online Access: https://aquila.usm.edu/goms/vol29/iss1/4; https://doi.org/10.18785/goms.2901.04; https://aquila.usm.edu/context/goms/article/1540/viewcontent/goms_29_01_41.pdf

Whaling voyage logbooks provide a unique window into historical marine animal distribution and relative numbers. The Gulf of Mexico was among the regions visited by American commercial whalers beginning in the late 1700s, and possibly as early as the 1760s. For more than a century, they hunted sperm...