News articles on Bowhead Whale[an error occurred while processing this directive] Bowhead Whales
In the days of commercial whaling the bowhead was valued for its large ...Wildlife in Peril - The bowhead whales' continued survival is in question.
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Junior Ranger
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLBowhead Whales weight up to 60 tons and up to 60 feet in length. Go to the whalemodel in ... 2000 voyages to the the Arctic in search of bowhead whales.
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The Bowhead Whale, Balena mysticetus: Its Historic and Current Status
Bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, are currently listed as endangered under theEndangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) and depleted under the Marine Mammal
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Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus)
The National Marine Mammal Laboratory conducts research on marine mammals, withparticular attention to issues relating to marine mammals off the coast of
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Bowhead Whales
...new-12.jpg (245664 bytes) The bowhead whale migration is an annual spring eventwhen the whales begin their migration up through the Chukchi Sea and into
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Kids Corner - Bowhead Whale Aerial Survey Project
The bowhead whale, distinctive for its huge, comb-like baleen and thick blubber,... The National Marine Fisheries Service has a page on the bowhead whale.
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Alaska's Population of Bowhead Whales Rebounding
Alaska Wildlife News is an online magazine published by the Alaska Department ofFish and Game.
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Marine Mammals: Draft Environmental Assessment of Issuing a ...
Please mark the outside of the envelope with ``Comments on Bowhead Whale Analysis... Exit Disclaimer The link is titled ``Bowhead Whale Draft Environmental
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EPA: Federal Register: Information Relating to Bowhead Whales; US ...
Information Relating to Bowhead Whales; US Implementation of Bowhead Whale StrikeQuota ,Federal Register document.
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Cetaceans: Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises - Office of Protected ...
Blue whale [doc] (Balaenoptera musculus); Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus);Chinese River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) (China); Fin whale (Balaenoptera
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Kid's Times Bowhead whale
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLIt would take. 1111 men to equal the weight of an adult male bowhead whale. ...The top drawing shows a bowhead whale swimming on the surface.
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Alaska Whales - humpback whales, gray whales, killer whales ...
Western Arctic bowhead whale populations continue to increase ... Notice of intentto prepare an EA for issuing a bowhead whale subsistence quota to AEWC.
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Western Arctic Bowhead Whale Populations Continue to Increase
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLincorporate the latest bowhead whale abundance estimate with more than two ...Bowhead whales are still recovering from extensive whaling between 1848 and
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Organochlorine contaminant levels in Eskimo harvested bowhead ...
Organochlorine (OC) levels in liver and blubber of 20 bowhead whales (Balaenamysticetus) collected
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Enantiomer-specific accumulation of PCB atropisomers in the ...
Blubber (n = 40) and liver (n = 20) samples from the bowhead whale (Balaenamysticetus) were collect
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Federal Register /Vol. 68, No. 237/Wednesday, December 10, 2003 ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLactivity), bowhead whales will likely. hear the noise at distances up to 10 km... subsistence use of the bowhead whale. Monitoring and Reporting
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Federal Register /Vol. 63, No. 87/Wednesday, May 6, 1998/Notices
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLBecause bowhead whales are east of. the seismic area in the Canadian ... of bowheadwhales prior to that date. After August 31, 1998, BPXA will
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Whales and Sea Ice: Investigating Insulation
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLBowhead whales feed on the zooplankton, using sieve-like baleen in their ...Books or internet research on Bowhead whales, including pictures
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ARM - Education: Traditional Knowledge
Iñupiat bowhead whale hunter in traditional skin umiak. Photo taken by JohnNusunginya Hunter skinning caribou Young man skinning a tuttu or caribou.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs Support Alaska Natives Need to Whale
A vote on the joint bowhead whale quota requested by the United States and RussianFederation at the 54th Annual Meeting of the IWC in Shimonoseki,
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Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
The AEWC harvests bowhead whales; the Makah Tribe hunts gray whales. ...Under those quotas, 280 strikes of bowhead whales from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort
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Bowhead Whale, species of special concern, Alaska Department of ...
Information on the Bowhead Whale Alaska a species of special concern.
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Currently Funded Projects Non Game Program Alaska Department of ...
Project Description: The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a large baleen... Although recent studies indicate that the bowhead whale population is
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Marine Mammals
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an endangered species that has showna significant ... Actual counts of bowhead whales, 1978-90 (NOAA 1994).
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Our Living Resources - Mammals
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLlation of the bowhead whale is believed to have. been 12000-18000; NMFS estimatesthat ... Bowhead whale, W. Arctic. 7500 About 40% of 1848. population size
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NSF 05-39, Arctic Research in the United States, Volume 19, Spring ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLfor gray and bowhead whales. In the 1980s the ... bowhead whale habitat, trendsin sea ice cover ... temporal scales linked to bowhead whale natural
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International Year of the Ocean - Whales - Page 4
As with other species, the bowhead whale was severely depleted by commercialwhaling. ... The diet of bowhead whales is similar to that of right whales.
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International Year of the Ocean - Whales - Page 2
Migrating bowhead whales may move further offshore to avoid human-caused noise.Although we do not have a full understanding of the possible impacts,
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FIELD/ LAB/ STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLfrom animals with a lower carbon isotope signature such as bowhead whale (mean... be due to the greater availability of bowhead whale carcasses to polar
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NOAA Photo Library/NOAA's Ark (Animals) Collection/Mammals/Whale ...
Bowhead whales - Balaena mysticetus. line. space. Image ID: anim0842, NOAA'sArk (Animals) Collection. High Resolution Photo Available - Click Here
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Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
Bowhead whales, rich in oil and plates of baleen, are first harvested by ...The most prosperous whaling year is 1852 with 2682 bowhead whales harvested.
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Bowhead Whales
Bowhead Whale: Rick LeDuc. Bowhead whales are one of the few cetaceans thatpermanently reside in polar waters, seasonally moving with the advance and
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Quarterly research reports for National Marine Mammal Lab, January ...
On 23-24 February 2005, a Workshop on Bowhead Whale Stock Structure Studies inthe Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas in 2005-2006 was held at the AFSC.
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National Marine Mammal Lab research reports for April-June 2003 ...
An adult bowhead whale with its newborn calf during the spring migration past... As part of NMFS management of the western Arctic stock of bowhead whales
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Oil Field Operations on the North Slope: Melding Technology With ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLbowhead whales, arctic peregrine falcons, spectacled and Steller's ... bowhead whales.This has been a point of contention for decades, and it remains so,
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NEFSC Fish FAQ
As with other species, the bowhead whale was severely depletedby commercial whaling.... The diet of bowhead whales is similar to that of right whales.
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Testimony of Penelope "Penny" Dalton, Assistant Administrator for ...
In general, these elements mirror the arrangement that exists for the AEWC bowheadwhale agreement, in part because this Committee highlighted the AEWC
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ITIS 'Expert(s)' Search results for Dr. James G. Mead
Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758 -- valid -- baleine boréale, black right whale,bowhead, bowhead whale. Balaenidae Gray, 1821 -- valid -- bowhead whales,
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WHALING COMMISSION APPROVES COMBINED RUSSIAN - MAKAH GRAY WHALE QUOTA
The combined quota allows an average of 56 bowhead whales to be landed each year.The Alaska Eskimos have been conducting aboriginal subsistence hunts with
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LC Subject Headings Weekly List 33 (August 17, 2005)
B67 450 UF Bowhead whale fisheries 450 UF Bowhead whale harvesting 550 BT Whaling151 Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) [sp2005004713] 667 This heading is
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NAI: News Stories
At this season they are hunting the large bowhead whale, still using small skinboats, fur-lined sealskin parkas, and hand-thrown harpoons, in combination
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Unit 22.ams
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLthe North Pacific right whale, and the bowhead ... Bowhead whales are distributedin season- ... bowhead whales are closely associated with sea
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Federal Register /Vol. 63, No. 227/Wednesday, November 25, 1998 ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLbowhead whales struck to 75 bowhead. whales struck. The gray whale quota for.1998 remains 5 gray whales landed. The. revised bowhead quota will govern the
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April 6, 2000: Statement; Charles Johnson, Alaska Nanuuq Commission
Three commissions were formed: The Bowhead Whale Commission, The Pacific WalrusCommission and the Polar Bear Commission. These Commissions were to address
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Marine Mammal Commission: Scientific Global Species List
Eubalaena glacialis · North Atlantic right whale · Eubalaena japonica · North Pacificright whale. Balaena mysticetus, Bowhead whale
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Marine Mammal Commission: Simple Global Species List
Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus. Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni. Burmeister'sporpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis. Chilean dolphin, Cephalorhynchus eutropia
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Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus Fin whale, Balaenoptera ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLbowhead whales, which frequent the edge of the Arctic ice, in North America thisfamily. includes:. Right whale: As long as 16.2 m (53 ft.
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AMMTAP - Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project Results
Cetaceans: bowhead whale, beluga whale, pilot whale, and harbor porpoise.Pinnipeds: northern fur seal, ringed seal, bearded seal, spotted seal.
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Academic resources on Bowhead Whale

Bowhead Whale Vocalizations: ...acoustic census of whales, and effects of human-made sounds on the behavior of whales. Bowhead Whale Vocalizations During their migration past Barrow, Alaska each Spring, bowhead whales, Balaena ...
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Whale Research in Bioacoustics: ...new techniques for recording and analyzing whale vocalizations. Current research involves ... Acoustic Census of Migrating Bowhead Whales Using an array of hydrophones deployed along the ice ...
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Whalenet Information Archive 2000: Canadian Bowhead Whale Hunt: Canadian Bowhead Whale Hunt (fwd) From: pita admininstrator ( pita@www1.wheelock.edu ) Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 15:02:00 EST Next message: pita admininstrator: "Orca Sounds- Recent paper in Animal Behaviour ...
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Bowhead Whale Detailed Information: How well can a bowhead whale see or hear? What do bowhead whales eat? How do bowhead whales ... of Sound in the Sea. http://omp.gso.uri.edu/dosits/gallery/marinemm/15.htm . The Center for ...
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OSU MMP Bowhead Whale Research: State University's Marine Mammal Program bowhead whale research in the Arctic OSU Marine Mammal ... ladd.irvine@hmsc.orst.edu http://hmsc.orst.edu/groups/marinemammal/ research/bowhead.htm
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Bowhead Biology and Management: ...for over two decades. Research efforts have focused on many different aspects of bowhead whale biology and behavior. The following discussion is not intended to be comprehensive ...
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Bowhead Whales May Be the World's Oldest Mammals, Alaska Science Forum: While helping Alaska Native whale hunter Billy Adams cut sections of blubber from a bowhead whale, Biologist Craig George pressed his knife into a deep scar in the whale's skin. The ...
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ADW: Balaena mysticetus: Information : ...black body (Nowak 1999). Baleen in the bowhead whale's mouth is the largest of any cetacean with 300 ... 08, 2005 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Balaena_mysticetus ...
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Bowhead Whale : ...be used in finding their way around in the dark. You can find bowhead whale sounds on the web at : http://birds.cornell.edu/BRP/ SoundsBowheadWhale.html ( Courtesy of Dr. Brandon Southall ...
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The bowhead whale: ...bowhead whale Next slide Back to first slide View graphic version
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Bowhead Whale links from .org sites ACS bowhead whale Cetacean Fact Sheet - American Cetacean Society: ...bowhead whale fact sheet - concise, scientifically reviewed basic information onthe bowhead whale, including physical description, prey, range, and status,
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Bowhead Whale Policy - American Cetacean Society: The American Cetacean Society; whale and dolphin conservation, education, andresearch from the oldest cetacean conservation group in the world.
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