Arctic Report Card 2020: Bowhead whales: recent insights into their biology, status and resilience

George, J. C.; Moore, S. E.; Thewissen, J. G. M.

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Arctic Report Card 2020: Bowhead whales: recent insights into their biology, status and resilience

2020
By George, J. C. ; Moore, S. E. ; Thewissen, J. G. M.
Series: Arctic Report Card

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Alternative Title:

Bowhead Whales: Recent Insights into Their Biology, Status, and Resilience
Personal Author:

George, J. C. ; Moore, S. E. ; Thewissen, J. G. M.
Corporate Authors:

North Slope Borough (Alaska). Department of Wildlife Management ; University of Washington. Center for Ecosystem Studies
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
Description:

Bowhead whales, the only "true" arctic baleen species, are large rotund whales with a range confined to ; icy arctic and sub-arctic seas. The four bowhead populations, or "stocks" in management terms, are ; named for the seas they inhabit: Okhotsk Sea (OKH; ~218 individuals); the East Greenland, Svalbard, ; Barents Sea (EGSB; ~318 individuals); the East Canada-West Greenland Sea (ECWG; ~6,400 individuals); ; and the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas (BCB; ~16,800 individuals) (Fig. 1; Givens and Heide-Jørgensen ; 2021; Baird and Bickham 2021). All populations were hunted to near-extinction by commercial whaling, ; which ceased by the early 1900s, but the two last mentioned have nearly fully recovered. Their ; conservation success story was made possible by the productive collaboration of international ; organizations, Indigenous hunters, non-governmental organizations, and national governments (Suydam ; and George 2021). The two smaller populations have not recovered and are considered at high risk by ; the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; Givens and Heide-Jørgensen 2021).
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Arctic Report Card
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/cppm-n265
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Administrative Report
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