Historical distribution of right whales in the North Pacific

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-168

  Josephson, Elizabeth ^a   Smith, Tim D ^b   Reeves, Randall R ^c  

^a Integrated Statistics   (United States)

^b World Whaling History Project   (United States)

^c Okapi Wildlife Associates Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Historical fisheries; Matthew Fontaine Maury; Right whales; Seasonal distribution; Sperm whales; Whaling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WHALE; WHALING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA; EUBALAENA JAPONICA; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 43449090372     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2008.00275.x     Document Type: Review

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