North Atlantic right whales : from hunted leviathan to conservation icon /
Laist, David W.(David Wallace),1949-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rescuing Nantucket -- What's in a name? -- Foraging with a smile -- Evolution -- The origin of whaling -- Medieval whaling in northern Europe -- Ghost whalers -- Basque whaling in Terranova -- The dawn of international whaling -- A fitful start for colonial whalers -- Long Island whaling -- Cape Cod whaling -- Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape May -- Whaling from the Carolinas to Florida -- Estimating pre-exploitation population size -- A second chance -- A dedicated recovery program -- Nobody wants to hit a whale -- Slow speed ahead -- Entanglement -- Oh, what a tangled web -- Ten thousand right whales.
Northern right whale.
Northern right whale
Northern right whale