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Historical occurrence of whales in Scottish Waters inferredfrom whaling records
Citation
Conor Ryan, Susannah Calderan, Cherry Allison, Russell Leaper, Denise Risch. 2022. Historical occurrence of whales in Scottish Waters inferred from whaling records. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 1 - 18. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8275
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description

Archived logbooks detailing landings at Scottish shore-based whaling stations between 1903 and 1951 were used to map whale catch locations. Historical distribution and occurrence are inferred and summary statistics on total landings are updated for blue (Balaenoptera musculus), fin (Balaenoptera physalus), humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), North Atlantic right (Eubalaena glacialis), sei (Balaenoptera borealis) and sperm (Physeter macrocephalus) whales: a total of 9,996 whales were caught during this period, which is 3.7% higher than previously reported and 25% higher for blue whales. 

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Original provider: Conor Ryan 

Dataset credits: IWC

Supplemental information: This dataset contains a subset of the data used in the citation. The data belong to IWC and the use of the data should be credited to the references.

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Marine biology, Marine mammals, Occurrence, Whaling, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, A, North Atlantic, Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828, Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758), Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758), Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776), Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus (Forster, 1770), Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781), Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -14,4635; MinLat: 56,17 - MaxLong: 3,3967; MaxLat: 63,4095 [WGS84]
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
18 April 1904 - 5 August 1951
Taxonomic coverage
Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828 [WoRMS]
Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776) [WoRMS]
Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus (Forster, 1770) [WoRMS]
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) [WoRMS]
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Contributors
Ryan, Conor
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, dataset publisher
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Release date: 2022-09-29
Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-07
Information last updated: 2023-04-20
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