Whale-watching is a significant and growing tourism industry worldwide. Whaling has a long
history and, although largely curtailed today, still occurs in a few countries around the world …

Humpback whales wintering in the entire West Indies chain are widely treated as comprising
a single breeding population. However, most areas outside of Silver Bank and Samana Bay …

The best-known present-day wintering areas for the North Atlantic population of humpback
whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are in the northern West Indies, notably off the island of …

Interdisciplinary approaches have been used not only to interpret past patterns of natural
resource utilization but also to provide useful tools for conservation biology and resource …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) have been taken in the North Atlantic since
the 1600s in a variety of fisheries operating from the Arctic to the tropics. The relative …

The American whaling fleet sailing out of southern New England ports took many humpback
whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from breeding areas in the eastern and western North …

A cetacean line-transect survey was conducted in the eastern Caribbean Sea and the
adjacent southwestern North Atlantic Ocean from 17 April to 14 May 2004 to obtain …

Marine mammal exploitation has been documented for the Caribbean in recent times for
only a handful of countries. Based on those studies a complex image of how that exploitation …

We here provide a synoptic overview and preliminary update of the marine mammals of the
Dutch Caribbean EEZ based on 279 cetacean sighting and stranding records. The Dutch …

The archaeology of the post‐Emancipation Caribbean remains relatively understudied. The
collapse of the industrial‐scale sugar plantation systems of the islands in the early 19th …