Commercial and subsistence harvests of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in eastern Canada and West Greenland

Journal of Cetacean Research and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-216

  Higdon, Jeff W ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic ocean; Atlantic ocean; Modelling; Statistics; Whaling historical; Whaling revised catches; Whaling aboriginal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; CATCH COMPOSITION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT RESTORATION; HARVESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WHALE; WHALING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GREENLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; STRAIT OF BELLE ISLE; WEST GREENLAND;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 79952688637     PISSN: 15610713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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