Scientists using passive acoustic monitoring to track minke whales in the Northwest Atlantic have found clues in the individual calling behaviors and movements of this species. These findings, recently published online in ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2014
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Iceland announced Friday it has increased its 2014 quotas for whaling in a move likely to intensify international condemnation of the practice.
Ecology
Dec 13, 2013
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Two dead minke whales have been found on Norfolk beaches in the past week.
Ecology
Nov 29, 2013
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In a paper published in Nature Genetics, researchers from Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Genome Research Foundation, BGI, and other institutes presented the first high-depth minke whale genome and ...
Biotechnology
Nov 24, 2013
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Norwegian whale hunters announced a big increase in their annual catch Wednesday but it remained less than half the limit set by the government.
Ecology
Oct 2, 2013
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Dwarf minke whales have been tagged and tracked in Australia's Great Barrier Reef in a world-first pilot study which hopes to solve the mystery of where they spend the summer.
Plants & Animals
Aug 14, 2013
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(AP)—The battle over Japan's controversial whaling program is moving from the high seas to the United Nations' highest court.
Ecology
Jun 25, 2013
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Iceland has resumed its disputed commercial fin whale hunt, with two vessels en route to catch this season's quota of at least 154 whales, Icelandic media reported on Monday.
Ecology
Jun 17, 2013
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Japanese whalers hunting the mammals in the northwestern Pacific caught a record-low 34 minke whales this Spring, the fisheries agency said Thursday, blaming bad weather.
Ecology
Jun 6, 2013
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Iceland plans to resume its disputed commercial fin whale hunt in June with a quota of at least 154 whales, the head of the only company that catches the giant mammals said Saturday.
Ecology
May 5, 2013
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