Status of the world's baleen whales

摘要: No global synthesis of the status baleen whales has been published since 2008 IUCN Red List assessments. Many populations remain at low numbers from historical commercial whaling, which had ceased for all but a few by 1989. Fishing gear entanglement and ship strikes are most severe current threats. The acute long-term effects anthropogenic noise cumulative multiple stressors concern poorly understood. looming consequences climate change ocean acidification difficult to characterize. North Atlantic Pacific right among species listed as Endangered. Southern right, bowhead, gray have assessed Least Concern some subpopulations these - western whales, Chile-Peru Svalbard/Barents Sea Okhotsk bowhead levels either Endangered or Critically Eastern blue reportedly recovered, Antarctic about 1% pre-exploitation levels. Small isolated subspecies subpopulations, such northern Indian Ocean Arabian humpback Mediterranean fin threatened while sei, Bryde’s, Omura’s inadequately monitored assess.