RT @bluewhalenews: I've done similar assessments of Antarctic blue whales (Branch et al. 2004) showing extreme depletion to 0.15% of pre-wh…
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RT @bluewhalenews: I've done similar assessments of Antarctic blue whales (Branch et al. 2004) showing extreme depletion to 0.15% of pre-wh…
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I've done similar assessments of Antarctic blue whales (Branch et al. 2004) showing extreme depletion to 0.15% of pre-whaling levels; and NE Pacific blue whales (Monnahan et al. 2015) finding recovery to 97% of pre-whaling level! https://t.co/w6thj0nAm8 h
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@Latrunculia @bluewhalenews Blue whales in the eastern North Pacific are near carrying capacity (~2000). In the Antarctic there are only a few thousand now compared to 239,000 before whaling. The plot is for Antarctic blue whales. I have papers on both: ht