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NORTH PACIFIC RIGHT WHALES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN BERING SEA

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The North Pacific right whale (NPRW) was heavily hunted between the 17
th
and the 20
th
centuries, when it ceased to be the principal target of commercial whaling (Omura, 1986; Scarff,
1986, 2001; IWC, 2001; Clapham et al., 2004). Protection was supposedly afforded by
international treaties in the 1930s and 1940s, but the illegal harvest of hundreds of individuals by
the Soviet Union, primarily in the 1960s (e.g. Doroshenko, 2000; Ivashchenko et al., 2011,
Ivashch…