Reconsidering the science of scientific whaling

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 375, Issue , 2009, Pages 305-309

  Corkeron, Peter J ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisheries interactions; Foraging ecology; Scientific review; Scientific whaling

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; WHALE; WHALING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BALAENOPTERA; CETACEA;

EID: 60149089622     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07882     Document Type: Review

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