Sentences with phrase «from whaling stations»

Not only were the whales taken in Magdalena Bay, but also by ships anchored along the coast from San Diego south to Cabo San Lucas and from whaling stations from Crescent City in northern California south to San Ignacio Lagoon.

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Most estimates of historic whale population size have been extrapolated from old whaling figures, but this method is often very inaccurate, argues marine biologist Steve Palumbi of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in California, US.

Research by Dr Nicholas Carey from the Goldbogen lab at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, United States and collaborators from IAMC - CNR, Italy uses data from real whale lunges along with lab simulations to examine if whales alter their lunging strategy to catch different dinners.

Now, an analysis of more than 1700 whale carcasses collected at Donkergat whaling station in South Africa in 1963 confirms that the bites come from the prime suspect — cookie - cutter sharks.

Nevertheless Klam does drop clues, including this crisp sentence: «This place had been known at one time or another for whale hunting, Portuguese immigrants, sand dunes, herring shoals, shipwrecks off the point, but also for a certain kind of seeker or desperate kook, Puritans, dropouts, communists, frazzled intellectuals, painters from New York, experimental - theater types, alcoholic fishermen, sailors stationed here between the wars, stubborn or demented individuals...

Only a few were caught from two whaling stations on the coast of California from 1919 to 1926, and a single station in Washington (1911 — 21) accounted for the capture of another.

They were totally extirpated from the San Juan Islands by a small whaling station near Victoria, B.C. in the 1930s.

Explore local birds with The Mendocino Coast Audubon Society by joining their beginning bird identification walks starting at 9 am from the upper parking lot at Point Cabrillo Light Station SHP each day of Whale Festival.

Fin whale meat is transported by truck from the Hvalur whaling station to Akranes, where it is cut, packaged, boxed, and made ready for export in HB Grandi facilities.

When the R / V Gould reaches Station Obama later this month, the team of scientists aboard will spend six hours collecting a suite of biological, physical, and chemical measurements.They'll map sea ice cover from the ship and satellite observations, whale biologists will make shipboard visual and drone - based instrumental observations, and two penguin scientists will spend five days studying a nearby Adélie penguin colony.