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HMAP Dataset 04: World Whaling
Citation
T.D. Smith ed. 'World Whaling Database: Individual Whale Catches, North Atlantic' in M.G Barnard and J.H Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (www.hull.ac.uk/hmap).
Contact: Smith, Tim
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 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, Historical records, Whaling statistics, World Oceans, Cetacea
Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1700 - 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Contributors
University of Hull; Maritime Historical Studies Centre (MHSC), more, data manager
Barnard, Michaela
World Whaling Project, more, data provider, data creator
Smith, Tim
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biogeographic Information System, more
OPI: Oceans Past Initiative, more
(Partly) included in:
HMAP: History of marine animal populations database, more
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Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-02
Information last updated: 2013-06-14
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