Occurrence, behavior and genetic diversity of bowhead whales in the Western Sea of Okhotsk, Russia /

The Okhotsk Sea (OS) stock of bowhead whales was severely reduced by commercial whaling in the late 19th century and again by illegal Soviet pelagic whaling in the 1960s. Estimates of the population prior to exploitation range from 3,000 to 6,000. A crude estimate of the population in the 1980s wa...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	MacLean, Stephen Ahgeak
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2002.
Subjects:	Major wildlife and fisheries sciences.
Online Access:	Link to OAKTrust copy