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The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better
PLoS ONE, 2010 BackgroundHumans have reduced the abundance of many large marine vertebrates, including whales, large fish, and sharks, to only a small percentage of their pre-exploitation levels.
Andrew J Pershing, Nicholas R Record
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Whale Stocks and Whaling [PDF]
Nature, 1946 Norsk Hvalfangst-Tidende, now in its thirty-fourth year, is the official organ of the Norwegian Whaling Association. It is a current history of whaling and publishes information on all branches of the subject.
J. E. HAMILTON
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Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2018 Genotypes of 10 microsatellite loci of 420 humpback whales from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean population were used to estimate for the first time its contemporary effective (Ne) and census (Nc) population sizes and to test the genetic effect of ...
Ana Lúcia Cypriano-Souza +3 more
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Encountering whales: How encounter rates became the basis for managing whaling
NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2009 Declining rates of encountering whales, including both sighting and catching, were noted by whalers throughout the 19th century, and these declines became the first indication that whaling was adversely affecting whale abundance.
Tim D Smith
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Collecting whales: processes and biases in Nordic museum collections [PDF]
PeerJWhales are unique museum objects that have entered collections in many ways and for different reasons. This work studies three Nordic natural history museum collections in Norway and Denmark with more than 2,500 whale specimens in total, and gathers the ...
Lene Liebe Delsett
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Whales and Whaling: Contributions by the Medical Profession [PDF]
Medical History, 1983 I. A. D. Bouchier
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Japan's rejection of international norms against whaling [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 This research is intended to explain the reasons for Japan's rejection of the anti-whaling norms. To investigate this, a qualitative approach was used with document-based data methods, both primary and secondary.
Imawan Riswanda +2 more
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J. Cetacean Res. Manage., 2023 North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica) were extensively exploited in the 19th century, and their recovery was further retarded (severely so in the eastern population) by illegal Soviet catches in the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s. Monthly
P. Clapham +3 more
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History of whaling in Trinidad and Tobago
J. Cetacean Res. Manage., 2023 Shore whaling for humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Trinidad represents a largely overlooked aspect of North Atlantic whaling history. Literature and archival sources were searched for information on the chronology, nature and extent of this ...
R. Reeves +4 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Significance Assessing change in Southern Ocean ecosystems is challenging due to its remoteness. Large-scale datasets that allow comparison between present-day conditions and those prior to large-scale ecosystem disturbances caused by humans (e.g ...
Solène Derville +35 more
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