Post by: susan on May 24, 2026, 08:16:00 AM
Tens of thousands of old logbooks from the 18th and 19th centuries reveal the scope and scale of how industrial whaling nearly wiped out bowhead whales. But they also show why some modern-day populations are surviving better than others.
Source: What centuries-old whaler logs can tell us about why bowheads struggle today (https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/whaling-logbook-bowhead-populations-9.7208739?cmp=rss)