Urgent need for empirical research into whaling and whale watching

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 554-558

  Higham, J E S ^a   Lusseau, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECIES CONSERVATION; WHALE; WHALING;

ANIMAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; RECREATION; RESEARCH; REVIEW; WHALE;

ANIMALS; COMMERCE; FISHERIES; HUMANS; RECREATION; RESEARCH; WHALES;

CETACEA;

EID: 33947544187     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00580.x     Document Type: Review

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