Copepod patches and right whales in the Great South Channel off New England

• Main Authors: Wishner, K., Durbin, E., Durbin, A., Macaulay, M., Winn, H., Kenney, R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 1988
• Subjects: Calanus finmarchicus; Eubalaena glacialis; Copepods
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/gsofacpubs/1294; https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1988/00000043/00000003/art00038#expand/collapse

For c1 month every spring, most of the NW Atlantic population of Eubalaena glacialis is found in the Great South Channel off New England, hypothesized to result from the increased abundance or aggregation of their major food item, Calanus finmarchicus. During a cruise in May 1986, a group of surface-feeding right whales spatially associated with a large, dense, nearly monospecific concentration of copepods, which is described. -from Authors