. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1988 Meredith and Campbell: Status of the Fin Whale 353. Figure 2. General world distribution of Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) stocks. Arrows indicate north-south, winter-summer movements. In the Northern Hemisphere, summer feeding animals are distributed in the northern parts of the range, and move further south in winter. The reverse holds true in the Southern Hemisphere. East-west arrows indicate wide dispersion within the range. Northern Hemisphere Populations (largely from Gaskin 1972; Omura and Ohsumi 1974; Rice 1974). Eastern North Pacific Population
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1988 Meredith and Campbell: Status of the Fin Whale 353. Figure 2. General world distribution of Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) stocks. Arrows indicate north-south, winter-summer movements. In the Northern Hemisphere, summer feeding animals are distributed in the northern parts of the range, and move further south in winter. The reverse holds true in the Southern Hemisphere. East-west arrows indicate wide dispersion within the range. Northern Hemisphere Populations (largely from Gaskin 1972; Omura and Ohsumi 1974; Rice 1974). Eastern North Pacific Populations (largely from Gaskin 1972; Omura and Ohsumi 1974; Rice 1974): 1. American Stock, Western North Pacific; 2. Asian Stock; 3. East China Sea Subpopulation. Western North Atlantic {\aTge\y from Mitchell 1974; Sergeant 1977): 4. Gulf of St. Lawrence Stock; 5. Newfoundland Stock; 6. Nova Scotia Stock; 7. East and West Greenland Stock; 8. Iceland Stock; 9. North Norway Stock; 10. Southwest Norway Stock; 11. British Isles, Spain, Portugal Stocks; 11a. Mediterranean Sea Stock. Southern Hemisphere Populations (Ivashin 1969): 12. Chile- Peruvian Stock; 13. South Georgian Stock; 14. West African Stock; 15. East African Stock; 16. Grozet- Kerguelen Stock; 17. West Australian Stock; 18. East Australian Stock; 19. New Zealand Stock. (Gaskin 1972). Records from the Mediterranean Basin {see Sergeant 1977) may indicate a resident population, however, Jonsgard (1966) indicates that migrations take place into and out of the Mediterranean Sea. The northern Norway stocks may also be related to the Iceland-East Greenland stocks (Figure 2); if so, the whales are distributed in a band across the Atlantic (Sergeant 1977). In the western North Atlantic there may be two or more discrete populations (Mitchell 1974). Mitchell (1974) identified a relative distinctness in stocks exploited at Nova Scotia and at Newfound- land (Figures 2, 4) and Sergeant (1977) produced evidence for a small stock in the Gulf
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