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Table l. — Estimated pelagic and Eskimo kill of bowhead whales from the Bering Sea stock. 



' 100% moribund in those lost. 



^Includes "commercial" shore-based landings in later years. 



^29 killed + recovered; 3 killed + lost; 79 struck + lost. 



resulting recruitment in numbers generates a 

 logistic relationship. At initial stock levels the 

 recruitment rate is assumed to be equal to the 



natural mortality rate (which includes a small 

 amount of exploitation mortality at the pre-1848 

 level). As the stock is reduced, recruitment rate 



846 



