The potential beginning of a postwhaling recovery in New Zealand humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Gibbs, Nadine J., Dunlop, Rebecca A., Gibbs, E. John, Heberley, Joseph A., Olavarría, Carlos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Megaptera novaeangliae; Humpback whales; Migration; New Zealand; Recovery; Recruitment; Survey; Trends; Whaling; 1104 Aquatic Science; 1105 Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Tonga; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:709636

Between the 1940s and 1970s Southern Hemisphere populations of humpback whales (including eastern Australia and Oceania populations) were hunted to near extinction by extensive commercial whaling activities in Antarctica, with fewer whales taken in shore whaling operations in New Zealand, Australia...