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Browsing Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute) by Subject "Abundance estimate"
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Wilkinson Christopher; Seyboth, Elisa; Olbers, J.; Vermeulen, Els; Kramer, R.; Findlay, Kenneth Pierce
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
Shore-based surveys of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae were performed from Cape Vidal, on the east coast of South Africa (iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area, Indian Ocean), from two independent platforms between 27 ...
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Seyboth, Elisa; Meynecke, Jan-Olaf; De Bie, Jasper; Roychoudhury, Alakendra; Findlay, Ken P.
(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-19)
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily
targeted during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000
individuals killed between 1903 and 1973. That impacted the abundance of ...
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Best, Peter B.; Ohsumi, S.; Kato, H.; Donovan, G.P.
(International Whaling Commission, 2024-02)
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed limits on the catch of Antarctic minke whales close to the start of commercial whaling in the 1970s. These management efforts were hampered by the challenge of obtaining ...