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HMAP Dataset 04: World Whaling
Citation
T.D. Smith ed. 'World Whaling Database: Individual Whale Catches, North Atlantic' in J.H Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3140
Contact: Smith, Tim ; Nicholls, John
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset includes worldwide data on whale catches and effort, whaling statistics, whaling technology, whale oil and whaling logbooks. The data covers the time period 1700-2000. more

This dataset includes worldwide data on whale catches and effort, whaling statistics, whaling technology, whale oil and whaling logbooks. The data covers the time period 1700-2000.
Scope
Themes:
Fisheries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Historical records, Whaling statistics, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Cetacea
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -67,78; MinLat: 4,2 - MaxLong: 33,67; MaxLat: 85 [WGS84]
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1700 - 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Contributors
World Whaling Project, more, data creator, data provider
Smith, Tim
The University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD), more, data manager
Nicholls, John
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OPI: Oceans Past Initiative, more
(Partly) included in:
HMAP: History of marine animal populations database, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-02
Information last updated: 2020-02-20
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