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researchers studying belugas noticed concentrations of
bowheads in the
study area. Thus,
bowheads in the Sea of
Okhotsk were once
called "forgotten whales"...
- 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...
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single species,
Balaena mysticetus. Eventually, it was
recognized that
bowheads and
right whales were in fact different. Later,
morphological factors such...
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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...
- Forget-me-not
Insect Four-spot
skimmer dragonfly Mammal Land:
Moose Marine:
Bowhead whale Tree
Sitka Spruce Inanimate insignia Fossil Woolly Mammoth Gemstone...
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American whaleships hunting bowhead whales between 1853 and 1874.
Russian schooners from
Mamga also
cruised for
bowheads in the sea from 1865 to 1871...
- Nunavut, Canada.
Arviat ("place of the
bowhead whale") is
derived from the
Inuktitut word
arviq meaning "
Bowhead whale".
Earlier in history, its name was...
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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...
- 1853 the
majority of the
fleet went to the
Bering Strait region to hunt
bowheads, but
intense competition, poor ice conditions, and
declining catches forced...
- 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...
