. Cetaceans of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Cetacea; Mammals. Minke Whale Baliitncptera atuloroslratii Lacepede, 1804 Although the minke whale has a world-wide distribution, because of its small size it was not actively hunted by commercial whalers in most areas until the reduction in populations of larger, more valuable, species (such as right, bowhead, blue, fin and sei whalesj required a shih in whaling focus. In the North Pacific, minke whales were killed, historically, m very small numbers by natives of the Pacific Northwest of North America, especially those at Cape Fla
. Cetaceans of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Cetacea; Mammals. Minke Whale Baliitncptera atuloroslratii Lacepede, 1804 Although the minke whale has a world-wide distribution, because of its small size it was not actively hunted by commercial whalers in most areas until the reduction in populations of larger, more valuable, species (such as right, bowhead, blue, fin and sei whalesj required a shih in whaling focus. In the North Pacific, minke whales were killed, historically, m very small numbers by natives of the Pacific Northwest of North America, especially those at Cape Flattery. Washington. Minke whales began to be exploited in the coastal waters of Japan several centuries ago. Whalers used the traditional multiple boat driving and killing methods employed for the larger species. The Norwegian method of whaling using small caccher boats, introduced to Japan in about 1890, was used to take minke whales, but they were not the primary species pursued and did not, until recently, become the object of a focused fishery in Japanese Following the introduction ot modern catcher boats m Japan in the 1920s, the coastal fishery there expanded. Russian pelagic whaling fleets began taking minke whales in 19?; off the east coast ot Kamchatka, in the Bering Sea and in the Arctic Ocean. Japanese pelagic vessels began exploiting minke whales in the Northwest Pacific in ig^o. The annual catch in this last fishery increased slightly through the early igsos, after which it stabilized at about 400 whales. The Republic ot Korea has used small shore-based catcher boats to harvest whales reported as minkes year-round in the waters otf Korea since the late nineteenth century. The catch in that area increased gradually from 170 in 1962 to 596 in 1969; 71s were taken in 1970; between 1971 and 1980 the annual catch fluctuated between 500 and a maximum of Between 1954 and 1982 at least 22,746 minkes were killed by Japanese and Korean whalers in the Northwest
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