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Adult right whale off Half Moon Bay,
California,
March 1982. (Photo: Jim Scarff) |
(updated October 23, 2005) |
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and D. J. Rugh.2005. Historic and current habitat use by
North Pacific right whales Eubalaena japonica
in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. Mammal Rev.Volume
35, No. 2, 129–155.
- Munger, L., D.K. Mellinger, S.M. Wiggins, S.E. Moore, and J.A. Hildebrand.
2005. Performance of spectrogram correlation in detecting right whale calls in
long-term recordings from the Bering Sea. Canadian Acoustics 33 (2): 25-34.
- Mellinger, D.K., Stafford, K.M., Moore, S.E., Munger, L., Fox, C.G.
2004. Detection of North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena
japonica) calls in the Gulf of Alaska. Marine
Mammal Science 20(4):872-879. 61 "certain"
right whale calls were recorded in August-September 2000 from
a hyrdophone located at 52º38'N, 157º23'W an area approximately
500km SSE of Dutch Harbor and 27 "possible" right
whale calls. 21 "probable" right whale calls
were recorded from a hydrophone at 57º07'N, 151º51'W east of
Kodiak Island.
- Mellinger, D.K. 2004. A comparison of methods for detecting
right whale calls. Canadian Acoustics 32(2):55-65.
- Wiggins, S.M., M.A. McDonald, L.M. Munger, J.A. Hildebrand
and S.E. Moore. 2004. Waveguide propagation allows range
estimates for North Pacific right whales in the Bering Sea.
Canadian Acoustics 32(2):146-154.
- Clapham, P.J.,
Good, C., Quinn, S.E., Reeves, R.R.,
Scarff, J.E. and Brownell, R.L. Jr. 2004. Distribution of North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica) as shown by 19th and 20th
century whaling catch and sighting records. J. Cetacean Res. Manage.6(1):1-6.
- Waite, J.M., K. Wynne and D.K. Mellinger. 2003. Documented
sightings of North Pacific right whale in the Gulf of Alaska
and post-sighting acoustic monitoring. Northwestern Naturalist
84:38-43.
- Macdonald, M.A., and S.E. Moore. 2002. Calls recorded
from North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica)
in the eastern Bering Sea. J. Cetacean Res. Manage.
4:261-266.
- Brownell, R.L. Jr., Clapham, P.J., Miyashita,
T., and Kasuya, T. 2001. Conservation status of North Pacific right
whales. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (special issue) 2:269-286. (This is a complete record of all
sightings and killings of right whales in the North Pacific in this
century.)
- Miyashita,T, and Kato, H. 2001. Recent data on the status of right
whales in the NW Pacific Ocean. Report of the International Whaling Commission.
SC/M98/RW11.
- LeDuc, R.G., W.L. Perryman, J.W. Gilpatrick, Jr., H. Hyde,
C. Stonchcomb, J.V. Carretta and R. L. Browness, Jr. 2001.
A note on recent surveys for right whales in the southeastern
Bering Sea. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (special issue
2):287-289.
- Scarff, J.E. 2001. Preliminary estimates
of whaling-induced mortality in the 19th century Pacific northern right whale
(Eubalaena glacialis) fishery, adjusting for struck-but-lost
whales and non-American whaling. J. Cetacean Res. Manage. (Special
Issue 18): 261-268.
- LeDuc, R.G., Perryman, W.L., Gilpatrick,, J.W. Jr., Hyde, J.,
Stinchcomb, C., Carretta, J.V. and Brownell Jr, R.L. 2001. A note on recent
surveys for right whales in the southeastern Bering Sea. J.
Cetacean Res. Manage. (special issue) 2:287-289.
- H. C. Rosenbaum, R. L. Brownwell Jr, M. W. Brown, C. Schaeff, V.
Portway, B. N. White, S. Malik, L. A. Pastene, N. J. Patenaude, C. S. Baker, M.
Goto, P. B. Best, P. J. Clapham, P. Hamilton, M. Moore, R. Payne, V. Rowntree,
C. T. Tynan, J. L. Bannister & R. DeSalle. 2000.
World-wide genetic differentiation of
Eubalaena: questioning the number of right whale species.
Molecular Ecology 9 (11):1793-1802.
- Doroshenko, N.V. 2000. Soviet whaling for
blue, gray, bowhead and right whales in the North Pacific Ocean,
1961-1979. Pp. 96-103 in Soviet Whaling Data (1949-1979). Center for Russian Environmental Policy,
Moscow.
- Perry, S.L., D.P. DeMaster and G.K. Silber. 1999. The right whales.
Marine Fisheries Review. 61(1):7-23. (Special Issue- history and
status of six species listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species
Act of 1973) (entire issue
on-line on PDF format)
- Gendron, D. Lanham, S., and Carwardine, M. 1999. North Pacific right
whale (Eubalaena glacialis) sighting South of Baja California.
Aquatic Mammals 25(1):31-34.
- Salden, D.R. and Mickelsen, J. 1999. Rare sighting of a North Pacific
right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in Hawai'i. Pacific Science
53(4):341-345.
- Goddard, P.D. and D.J. Rugh. 1998. A group of right whales seen in
the Bering Sea in July 1996. Marine Mammal Science
14(2):344-49.
- Carretta, J.V., M.S. Lynn and C.A. LeDuc. 1994. Right whale
(Eubalaena glacialis) sighting off San Clemente Island,
California. Marine Mammal Science 10:101-105.
- Rowlett, R.A., G.A. Green, C.E. Bowlby and M.A. Smultea. 1994. The
first photographic documentation of a northern right whale off Washington
State. Northwestern Naturalist 75:102-104.
- Scarff, J.E. 1991. Historic
distribution and abundance of the right whale (Eubalaena
glacialis) in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of
Japan from the Maury Whale Charts. Rep. Intl Whal. Commn
41:467-489.
- Scarff, J.E. 1986. Historic and
present distribution of the right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in
the Eastern North Pacific South of 50° North and East of 180° West.
Rep. Intl Whal. Commn (Special Issue 10): 43-63.
- Scarff, J.E. 1986. Occurrence of
the barnacles Coronula diadema, C. reginae and Cetopirus
complanatus (Cirripedia) on right whales. Sci. Rep. Whales
Res. Inst. 37:129-153. [This is the best record of the 1982 sighting
off Half Moon Bay, California.
- Webb, R. 1988. On the Northwest, Commercial Whaling in the
Pacific Northwest 1790-1967. Univ. Brit. Columbia Press. [This is a
superb, and very readable account about the pelagic Northwest whaling
industry.]
Please send any comments or corrections to: Jim
Scarff with "right whale" in subject line.
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