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Ocean Alliance - EDUCATION - Whale Education Kit
Visual arts Key Words: Cetacean, Indicator Species, Rorqual, Krill Background Information: This first lesson in the WHALE Education Program is designed to give students a sense of enthusiasm about whales. They will hear ... health of a salmon run or the amounts of pollution in local waters, the health of whale populations can alert us to other more obscure man-made problems in the oceans. Whales must ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Whale Rescue | Frequently Asked Questions
What is a life-threatenning entanglement? For some populations of whales, entanglement is not uncommon. Many whales may blunder into gear and become temporarily ... an understanding of the healing process. Considering that 10-20% of the humpback and right whale populations may become entangled each year, the work of the rescue team becomes daunting. Even ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Whale Rescue | Summary of the 2004 Season
Southern Hemisphere reports and evidence of entanglements have been increasingly recorded in humpback and right whale populations. Australia, a wintering ground for both species, has made a large effort to address ... years. PPCCS created an extensive series of web pages summarizing three complex, long-term right whale cases as a means to facilitate timely clinical input from several of the top marine ...
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Makah Harpoons prod a Whale of a Dilemma -Editorial, The Seattle Times-
Olympic peninsula. The hunts ended 70 years ago when whale populations plummeted, but the magnificent creatures survived in tribal legend and culture. Now, gray whales ... , whales demand a coherent and consistent international policy. If the world community approves the Makahs' whale hunt, then Japan deserves the same. But the long, grim history of commercial whaling points ...
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IWMC.org - A Whale of a Tale
Some years ago the IWC scientific committee estimated the worldwide minke whale population at about one million animals -- more abundant than before commercial whaling began. Remarkably, the ... Japan are maligned for their continued whaling, but their hunts hardly pose a threat to whale populations. In the 1997 whaling season Norwegian whalers took 503 minkes in the North Atlantic ...
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Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Although whaling substantially reduced blue whale populations worldwide during the first half of the 20th century, whaling is no longer considered ... blue whales are relatively abundant. In March 1998, a dead 20 m (66ft) male blue whale was brought into Rhode Island waters on the bow of a tanker. The cause of ...
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Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
After commercial whaling exhausted all known populations of this species, sei whales in the North Atlantic and North Pacific are considered to ... 300,000 animals killed for their meat and oil. Other threats that may affect sei whale populations are ship strikes and interactions with fishing gear, such as traps/pots. Conservation Efforts ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Whale
Single male humpback whales make their famous whale songs during the winter mating season. Human impact on whales Humans have hunted whales, mainly for ... use the meat as well as the blubber. At first, small-scale hunting did not affect whale populations. But in the last 200 years, humans have built bigger ships and better equipment to hunt ...
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2008 International Whaling Commission meeting
Regional, non lethal whale research partnerships for better whale science, beginning in the Southern Ocean. The first ... non-lethal uses of whales such as whale watching. The group will report to a special IWC meeting early next year. Review of populations There was no consensus on the current ...
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The Whale Warriors - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Photograph by Paul Taggart/World Picture News This photo originally ran with our May 2006 article "The Whale Warriors" >> September 14, 2007 Journalist Peter Heller frequently reports from the rough edges of the world, ... billion dollars a year. Watson's point is that if we can't save whales—whose populations are, by all accounts, one to three percent of what they were before commercial whaling—how ...
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