(listed in reverse chronological order)
abstracts of some of these reports are available on-line

• Sheldon, K.E.,  S E. Moore, J. M. Waite, P. R. Wade 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 19^th and 20^th 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.]

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