-
researchers studying belugas noticed concentrations of
bowheads in the
study area. Thus,
bowheads in the Sea of
Okhotsk were once
called "forgotten whales"...
-
single species,
Balaena mysticetus. Eventually, it was
recognized that
bowheads and
right whales were in fact different. Later,
morphological factors such...
-
summer range of
bowhead whales into the
Beaufort Sea and
further east into the
Canadian Archipelago. Like
other whale species,
bowheads tend to
avoid ice-choked...
- The IWC
quota for
hunting bowheads was 100 in 2020, with 7 for
Russia and 93 for the
United States. US
hunters stuck 69
bowheads, of
which they were able...
- Nunavut, Canada.
Arviat ("place of the
bowhead whale") is
derived from the
Inuktitut word
arviq meaning "
Bowhead whale".
Earlier in history, its name was...
- the
Middle Ages,
early whaling fleets aimed at
baleen whales, such as
bowheads. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the
Dutch fleet had
about 300 whaling...
-
Whale oil is oil
obtained from the
blubber of whales. Oil from the
bowhead whale was
sometimes known as train-oil,
which comes from the
Dutch word traan...
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Annual catches vary
between 300 and 500
belugas and 40 to 70
bowheads. The hunt
takes the
bowhead whales from a po****tion of
about 10,000 in
Alaskan waters...
- area for the
bowhead whale,
beluga whale and narwhal. Both
bowhead whales and
belugas winter in the
waters of
northeastern Hudson Bay.
Bowheads were the only...
-
single species,
Balaena mysticetus. Eventually, it was
recognized that
bowheads and
right whales were in fact different, and John
Edward Gray proposed...
