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Dawid Bunikowski and Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (New York: Routledge, 2021)

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2021
A review of the book: Dawid Bunikowski and Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (New York: Routledge, 2021)
Jonathan Wood
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Have whales returned to a historical hotspot of industrial whaling? The pattern of southern right whale Eubalaena australis recovery at South Georgia

open access: yes, 2020
Around 176 500 whales were killed in the sub-Antarctic waters off South Georgia (South Atlantic) between 1904 and 1965. In recent decades, whales have once again become summer visitors, with the southern right whale (SRW) the most commonly reported ...
J. Jackson   +22 more
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Searching for humpback whales in a historical whaling hotspot of the Coral Sea, South Pacific

open access: yesEndangered Species Research, 2020
Humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae were severely depleted by commercial whaling. Understanding key factors in their recovery is a crucial step for their conservation worldwide.
C. Garrigue   +7 more
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Beaked whales [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2014
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Madsen, Peter   +3 more
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Pre-whaling genetic diversity and population ecology in eastern Pacific gray whales: insights from ancient DNA and stable isotopes. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
Commercial whaling decimated many whale populations, including the eastern Pacific gray whale, but little is known about how population dynamics or ecology differed prior to these removals.
S Elizabeth Alter   +2 more
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La chasse à la baleine chez les Aïnous et leurs traditions préhistoriques dans l’archipel du Japon

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022
The Ainu is an ethnic group native to Hokkaido in the north part of Japanese Archipelago. Their territory also previously extended to the island of Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands. This knowledge and experience, was maintained by the Ainu.
Kazuharu Takehana
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Whale Stocks and Whaling [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 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.
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Whales Lost and Found

open access: yesExchanges, 2023
Worldwide, whales have been hunted to the brink of extinction. In Brazil, whaling was a royal monopoly between 1614 and 1801. Within the dynamics of the Portuguese Empire, it was a stimulus that promoted wealth and the circulation of knowledge ...
Nina Vieira
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Preliminary estimates of whaling-induced mortality in the 19th century North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonicus) fishery, adjusting for struck-but-lost whales and non-American whaling

open access: yes, 2020
This study develops preliminary estimates of total whaling-induced mortality of northern right whales in the 19 th century North Pacific pelagic whale fishery.
J. E. Scarff
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The missing whales: relevance of “struck and lost” rates for the impact assessment of historical whaling in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

open access: yesICES Journal of Marine Science, 2020
The massive impact that open-boat historical whaling (18th to 20th centuries) had on whale populations has been traditionally estimated from records of oil and baleen plate production.
M. Vighi   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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