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Journal article
First assessment of interchange of humpback whales between Oceania and the East coast of Australia
The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, (Humpback Whales: Status in the Southern Hemisphere (Special Issue 3) ), pp.269-274
2011
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Abstract
The interchange of individual humpback whales between the wintering grounds of Oceania (South Pacific) and the east coast of Australia weredocumented by individual identification photographs collected from 1999 to 2004. Interchange was assessed using regional catalogues of flukephotographs, totalling 672 individuals from Oceania (represented by New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Cook Island,French Polynesia and American Samoa) and 1,242 individuals from Hervey Bay and Byron Bay representing the southbound and the northboundmigration along the east coast of Australia (EA). Overall, there were seven documented movements between EA and Oceania. Four instances ofmovement of four individuals were documented between EA and the closest breeding grounds of New Caledonia. A further three movements wererecorded between EA and a small catalogue (n = 13) from the New Zealand migratory corridor. In contrast, during this same period, 20 cases ofinterchange were documented among nine breeding grounds: French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Niue, American Samoa, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatuand New Caledonia. The low level of interchange between Oceania and the east coast of Australia has important implications for understanding thestock structure and abundance of humpback whales in the South Pacific.
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- Title
- First assessment of interchange of humpback whales between Oceania and the East coast of Australia
- Creators
- Claire Garrigue - University of New CaledoniaTrish Franklin - Southern Cross UniversityRochelle Constantine - University of AucklandKirsty Russell - University of AucklandDaniel Burns - University of AucklandMichael Poole - Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'EnvironnementDave Paton - Southern Cross UniversityNan Hauser - Cook Islands Whale ResearchMarc Oremus - University of AucklandSimon Childerhouse - University of OtagoDave Mattila - Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine SanctuaryNadine Gibbs - Department of ConservationWally Franklin - Southern Cross UniversityJooke Robbins - Center for Coastal StudiesPhil Clapham - Southern Cross UniversityC. Scott Baker - University of Auckland
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, (Humpback Whales: Status in the Southern Hemisphere (Special Issue 3) ), pp.269-274
- Comment
- Available from: https://journal.iwc.int/index.php/jcrm/article/view/314
- Publisher
- International Whaling Commission
- Grant note
- We acknowledge Fonds Pacfifique for funding this project through Opération Cétacés and the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium.
- Identifiers
- 991013035743802368
- Copyright
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
- Academic Unit
- Marine Ecology Research Centre; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science; Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article