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.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 · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · 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 · World Oceans · XYZ ASCII · 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]
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2013-06-11
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-02
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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