Hunting cetaceans with sound: A worldwide review

Journal of Cetacean Research and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-88

  Brownell Jr , Robert L ^a   Nowacek, Douglas P ^b   Ralls, Katherine ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Atlantic white sided dolphin; Blue whale; Direct capture; False killer whale; Fraser's dolphin; Gray whale; Harbour porpoise; Hearing; Humpback whale; Killer whale; Live capture; Long finned pilot whale; Melon headed whale; Northern bottlenose whale; Pacific white sided dolphin; Pantropical dolphin; Pygmy killer whale; Risso's dolphin; Short finned pilot whale; Small cetaceans; Sonar; Sperm whale; Stress; Striped dolphin; Whaling historical; Whaling modern; Whaling small type

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CAPTURE METHOD; DOLPHIN; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SONAR; WHALE;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; CETACEA; CUCUMIS; DELPHINIDAE; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; FERESA; GLOBICEPHALA MACRORHYNCHUS; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS ACUTUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBLIQUIDENS; MEGAPTERA; MYSTICETI; ORCINUS ORCA; PEPONOCEPHALA; PHOCOENIDAE; PHYSETERIDAE; PSEUDORCA; SCOMBRIDAE; STENELLA (CETACEA);

EID: 58649116920     PISSN: 15610713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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