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HMAP Dataset 04: World Whaling
Citation
T.D. Smith ed. 'World Whaling Database: Individual Whale Catches, North Atlantic' in J.H Nicholls (comp.) HMAP Data Pages (https://oceanspast.org/hmap_db.php). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/3140
Contact:
Smith, Tim ;
Nicholls, John
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 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.
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.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Fisheries
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Historical records, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), Whaling statistics, XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Oceans, Cetacea
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -67,78; MinLat: 4,2 - MaxLong: 33,67; MaxLat: 85 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -67,78; MinLat: 4,2 - MaxLong: 33,67; MaxLat: 85 [WGS84]
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1700 - 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Contributors
World Whaling Project, data creator, data provider
Smith, Tim
The University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD), data manager
Nicholls, John
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
OPI: Oceans Past Initiative
(Partly) included in:
HMAP: History of marine animal populations database
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2013-06-11
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-02
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
