Research Catalog

Title

Right whales : past and present status : proceedings of the Workshop on the Status of Right Whales, New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts, 15-23 June 1983 / edited by Robert L. Brownell, Peter B. Best, and John H. Prescott.

Author

Workshop on the Status of Right Whales (1983 : New England Aquarium)

Publication

Cambridge [England] : International Whaling Commission, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brownell, Robert L.
• Best, P. B.
• Prescott, John H.
• New England Aquarium (Boston, Mass.)
• International Whaling Commission.

Description

vi, 289 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Summary

24 papers on the distribution of right whales and on historical whaling of the species.

Series Statement

Reports of the International Whaling Commission. Special issue, 0255-2760 ; 10

Uniform Title

Reports of the International Whaling Commission. Special issue ; 10.

Subjects

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Juridische aspecten
• Walvissen
• Northern right whale > Congresses
• Southern right whale > Congresses
• Right whales > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

History of right whale catches in the waters around Japan / H. Omura -- Historic and present distribution of the right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the eastern North Pacific south of 50° N and east of 180° W / J.E. Scarff -- An annotated bibliography of right whales, Eubalaena glacialis, in the North Pacific / H.W. Braham -- Status of Eubalaena glacialis off Cape Cod / W.E. Schevill, W.A. Watkins and K.E. Moore -- Sightings of right whales, Eubalaena glacialis, on the Scotian Shelf, 1966-1972 / E. Mitchell, V.M. Kozicki and R.R. Reeves -- Twentieth-century records of right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean / J.G. Mead -- Twentieth-century records of right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the northeast Atlantic Ocean / S.G. Brown -- The distributional biology of the right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in the western North Atlantic / H.E. Winn, C.A. Price and P.W. Sorensen -- Migration and calving of right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in the western North Atlantic / S.D. Kraus, J.H. Prescott, A.R. Knowlton and G.S. Stone -- The use of photographs to identify individual North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) / S.D. Kraus, K.E. Moore, C.A. Price, M.J. Crone, W.A. Watkins, H.E. Winn and J.H. Prescott -- Southern right whales : status off Australia from twentieth-century 'incidental' sightings and aerial survey / J.L. Bannister -- Records of the southern right whale, Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822), from Chile between 1976 and 1982 / A. Aguayo L. and D. Torres N. -- Long term behavioral studies of the southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) / R. Payne -- Population estimate for the right whales off Peninsula Valdes, Argentina, 1971-1976 / H. Whitehead, R. Payne and M. Payne -- Recent sightings and strandings of southern right whales off subantarctic South America and the Antarctic Peninsula / R.N.P. Goodall and A.R. Galeazzi -- Recent off-shore distribution of the southern right whale in summer / S. Ohsumi and F. Kasamatsu -- Archaeological evidence of the 16th century Basque right whale fishery in Labrador / S.L. Cumbaa -- A review of old Basque whaling and its effect on the right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) of the North Atlantic / A. Aguilar -- The Long Island, New York, right whale fishery: 1650-1924 / R.R. Reeves and E. Mitchell -- American pelagic whaling for right whales in the North Atlantic / R.R. Reeves and E. Mitchell -- Notes on nineteenth century catches of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off the southern coasts of Western Australia / J.L. Bannister -- Right whales caught in waters around southeastern Australia and New Zealand during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / W.H. Dawbin -- Catch history of French right whaling mainly in the South Atlantic / T. DuPasquier -- Catches of right whales from shore-based establishments in southern Africa, 1792-1975 / P.B. Best and G.J.B Ross.

ISBN

• 0906975166
• 9780906975169

LCCN

88152582

OCLC

• ocm16514779
• 16514779
• SCSB-14185814

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library