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North Atlantic right whales : from hunted leviathan to conservation icon /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laist, David W. (David Wallace), 1949- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Northern right whale.
Northern right whale > Conservation.
Northern right whale > Pictorial works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Rescuing Nantucket
  • What's in a name?
  • Foraging with a smile
  • Evolution
  • The origin of whaling
  • Medieval whaling in northern Europe
  • Ghost whalers
  • Basque whaling in Terranova
  • The dawn of international whaling
  • A fitful start for colonial whalers
  • Long Island whaling
  • Cape Cod whaling
  • Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape May
  • Whaling from the Carolinas to Florida
  • Estimating pre-exploitation population size
  • A second chance
  • A dedicated recovery program
  • Nobody wants to hit a whale
  • Slow speed ahead
  • Entanglement
  • Oh, what a tangled web
  • Ten thousand right whales.