This is a peer-reviewed publication containing original scientific papers on the conservation and management of whales, dolphins and porpoises. The Journal is accompanied by an annual Supplement which contains the report of the IWC Scientific Committee meeting and intersessional workshops held during the relevant period. There are also a number of topic-based Special Issues.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47536/jcrm.v10i1

Published: 2008-01-01

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Contents Editorial

Articles

Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) mortalities and human interactions in Australia, 1950-2006

Catherine Kemper , Douglas Coughran , Robert Warneke, Rebecca Pirzl , Mandy Watson , Rosemary Gales , Susan Gibbs

1-8

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Geographic variation in external morphology of North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus)

James W. Gilpatrick Jr., Wayne L. Perryman

9-21

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Blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whale vocalisations measured from northern latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean

O. Boisseau , D. Gillespie , R. Leaper, A. Moscrop

23-30

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Density, abundance and distribution of the guiana dolphin, (Sotalia guianensis van Benéden, 1864) in Sepetiba Bay, Southeast Brazil

Leonardo Flach , Patricia Amaral Flach , Adriano G. Chiarello

31-36

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A note on the species occurrence, distributional ecology and fisheries interactions of cetaceans in the Mergui (Myeik) Archipelago, Myanmar

Brain D. Smith, Mya Than Tun

37-44

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Species occurrence and distributional ecology of nearshore cetaceans in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, with abundance estimates for Irrawaddy dolphins Orcaella brevirostris and finless porpoises Neophocaena phocaenoides

Brian D. S Smith , Benazir Ahmed , Rubaiyat Mansur Mowgli , Samantha Strindberg

45-58

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Diversity, habitat associations and stock structure of odontocete cetaceans in the waters of American Samoa, 2003-06

David W. Johnston , Jooke Robbins , Marie E. Chapla , David K. Mattila , Kimberly R. Andrews

59-66

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Brucella spp. in the western North Pacific and Antarctic cetaceans: a review

Kazue Ohishi, Yoshihiro Fujise , Tadashi Maruyama

67-72

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A note on the spatial and temporal distribution of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) off Venezuela, Southeastern Caribbean

R. Acevedo, L. Oviedo, N. Silva, L. Bermudez-Villapol

73-79

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Hunting cetaceans with sound: a worldwide review

Robert L. Brownell Jr. , Douglas P. Nowacek , Katherine Ralls

81-88

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A photographic match of a western gray whale between Sakhalin Island, Russia, and Honshu, Japan: the first link between the feeding ground and a migratory corridor

David W. Weller , Amanda L. Bradford, Hidehiro Kato , Takeharu Bando , Seiji Otani , Alexander M. Burdin , Robert L. Brownell Jr.

89-91

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