IMIS - Marine Research Groups

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

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

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.

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]

World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1700 - 2000

Taxonomic coverage

Cetacea [WoRMS]

Contributors

World Whaling Project, more, data creator, data provider

Smith, Tim

The University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD), more, data manager