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A note on incidental fishery mortality of southern minke whales off Western South America
Van Waerebeek, K.; Reyes, J.C. (1994). A note on incidental fishery mortality of southern minke whales off Western South America. Rep. Int. Whal. Commn. Special Issue 15: 521-523
In: Report of the International Whaling Commission. International Whaling Commission: Cambridge. ISSN 0143-8700

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Keywords
    Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804 [WoRMS]; Eubalaena australis (Desmoulins, 1822) [WoRMS]; Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) [WoRMS]; Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    INCIDENTAL CAPTURE; FISHERIES; MINKE WHALE; SPERM WHALE; SOUTH PACIFIC; HUMPBACK WHALE; RIGHT WHALE

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  • Van Waerebeek, K.
  • Reyes, J.C.

Abstract
    The accidental entanglement of two juvenile southern minke whales in artisanal gillnets in 1991 is discussed. They represent the first positive records of this species for Peru. Some biological data are provided and the incidental fishery mortality of these and other large whales off the west coast of South America is reviewed. It is likely that severe underreporting occurs due to vastly inadequate monitoring effort.

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