Description
Original provider: Conor Ryan Dataset credits: IWC Abstract: Archived logbooks detailing landings at Scottish shore-based whaling stations between 1903 and 1951 were used to map whale catch locations. Historical distribution and occurrence are inferred and summary statistics on total landings are updated for blue (Balaenoptera musculus), fin (Balaenoptera physalus), humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), North Atlantic right (Eubalaena glacialis), sei (Balaenoptera borealis) and sperm (Physeter macrocephalus) whales: a total of 9,996 whales were caught during this period, which is 3.7% higher than previously reported and 25% higher for blue whales. Supplemental information: This dataset contains a subset of the data used in the citation. The data belong to IWC and the use of the data should be credited to the references.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,992 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Conor Ryan, Susannah Calderan, Cherry Allison, Russell Leaper, Denise Risch. 2022. Historical occurrence of whales in Scottish Waters inferred from whaling records. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 1 - 18.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b94b8066-0d14-43b7-83da-d4e2002ab96a. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Whale catch,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2213 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2213/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Scotland
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [56.17, -14.464], North East [63.409, 3.397] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale), Balaenoptera musculus (Blue Whale), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic Right Whale), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1904-04-18 / 1951-08-05 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Historical occurrence of whales in Scottish Waters inferredfrom whaling records |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_2213 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_2213 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2213 |