. The Canadian field-naturalist. Figure 1. A Northern Bottlenose Whale in The Gully off Nova Scotia. some recent sightings made off eastern Canada dur- ing environmental-assessment and other surveys. Distribution and Stock Identity Gray (1882), a Scottish whaler, gave the distribu- tion of the Northern Bottlenose Whale as: ... from the entrance of Hudson's Straits and up Davis Straits, as far as 70° north lat., and down the east side round Cape Farewell, all round Iceland, north along the Greenland ice to 77° north lat.; also along the west coast of Spitzbergen and east to Cherry Island [Bear
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Figure 1. A Northern Bottlenose Whale in The Gully off Nova Scotia. some recent sightings made off eastern Canada dur- ing environmental-assessment and other surveys. Distribution and Stock Identity Gray (1882), a Scottish whaler, gave the distribu- tion of the Northern Bottlenose Whale as: ... from the entrance of Hudson's Straits and up Davis Straits, as far as 70° north lat., and down the east side round Cape Farewell, all round Iceland, north along the Greenland ice to 77° north lat.; also along the west coast of Spitzbergen and east to Cherry Island [Bear Island or Bjom0ya], in lat. 72° north and long. 19° east. He had not observed it outside these limits but guessed that it could be found south to the Strait of Belle Isle in the west, and east as far as Novaya Zemlya. Norwegian whaling records indicate a dis- tribution north to about 80°N off Svalbard (Christensen 1993). Bottlenose Whales have rarely been caught on the European continental shelf (Benjaminsen 1972). Only one was taken in the shal- low North Sea during 1938-72, and none in the shal- low Barents Sea in spite of intensive Norwegian whaling there (Benjaminsen and Christensen 1979). There are, however, records of Bottlenose Whales from Varanger Fiord, the Murman coast, and the White Sea (Birula 1934; Tomilin 1967; Golenchenko 1967; Ivashin 1988). Areas of Bottlenose Whale abundance in the Northeast Atlantic are well defined from whaling records (Jonsgard and 0ynes 1952; Benjaminsen 1972; Benjaminsen and Christensen 1979): (1) between Iceland and Jan Mayen, (2) southwest of Svalbard, (3) off the More coast of Norway, and (4) off the Andenes coast of Norway. The two coastal areas have narrow shelves, and the catches have been mainly in waters deeper than 1000 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the
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