Motivated by the need to estimate the abundance of marine mammal populations to inform
conservation assessments, especially relating to fishery bycatch, this paper provides …

No global synthesis of the status of baleen whales has been published since the 2008 IUCN
Red List assessments. Many populations remain at low numbers from historical commercial …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

We estimated the abundance of humpback whales in the North Pacific by capture‐recapture
methods using over 18,000 fluke identification photographs collected in 2004–2006. Our …

Humpback whales were hunted commercially in the North Pacific until 1966 and remain on
the endangered species list at the time of this report. The degree to which they have …

Detailed mass balance food web models were constructed to compare ecosystem
characteristics for three Alaska regions: the eastern Bering Sea (EBS), the Gulf of Alaska …

Five species of large whales, including the blue (Balaenoptera musculus), fin (B. physalus),
sei (B. borealis), humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), and North Pacific right (Eubalaena …

ABSTRACT 1 We summarize fin whale Balaenoptera physalus catch statistics, sighting data,
mark recoveries and acoustics data. The annual cycle of most populations of fin whales had …

Estimating temporal trends in animal abundance is central to ecology and conservation, but
obtaining useful trend estimates is challenging when animal detection rates vary across …

The global distribution of fin whales B alaenoptera physalus is not fully understood. Existing
maps can be divided into two conflicting categories: one showing a continuous global …