Aerial Surveys for Cetaceans in the Former Akutan, Alaska, Whaling Grounds

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Stewart, B.S., Karl, S.A., Yochem, P.K., Leatherwood, S., Laake, J.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Aerial surveys; Animal distribution; Animal population; History; Marine mammals; Whales; Whaling; Bering Sea; North Pacific Ocean; Baleine; Baleinière; la Baleine; Pacific; Arctic; Îles Aléoutiennes; Mer de Béring; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64798

Randomized aerial surveys were flown between 26 July and 26 August 1984 to search for cetaceans in two areas of southwestern Alaska: one on both Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean sides of the Aleutian Islands near the defunct Akutan shore-whaling station, which operated from 1912 through 1938, the other...