A review of post-whaling abundance, trends, changes in distribution and migration patterns, and supplementary feeding of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales

Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily targeted during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000 individuals killed between 1903 and 1973. That impacted the abundance of all the seven breeding stocks of the species. Most of these stocks have been reco...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Marine Science
Main Authors:	Elisa Seyboth, Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Jasper de Bie, Alakendra Roychoudhury, Ken Findlay
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-01
Subjects:	abundance estimate cetacean climate change population trends Megaptera novaeangliae population recovery
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.997491/full