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RECENT SIGHTINGS OF THE BLUE WHALE, 



BALENOPTERA MUSCULUS, IN 



THE NORTHEASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC 



The blue whale, Balenoptera rnusculus, in the 

 North Pacific, migi'ates to the Gulf of Alaska and 

 Aleutians in the summer for feeding (Nishiwaki 

 1966). It is believed to migrate to tropical waters 

 in winter for calving, but sightings of blue whales 

 in lower latitudes are rare (Tomilin 1957). In 

 mid-July 1928, Cruikshank reported seeing 

 ". . . several blue whales . . ." at lat. 11°32'N and 

 long. 91°58'W (Kellogg 1929). A Peruvian fishery 

 reported taking 247 blue whales between De- 

 cember 1925 and March 1926 (Ingebrigtsen 1929). 

 Potentially these were from a North Pacific stock, 

 since the Southern Hemisphere blue whale is most 

 numerous in the Antarctic at this time. Volkov 

 and Moroz (1977) noted an abundance of baleen 



fishery BULLETIN: VOL. 76, NO. 4, 1979. 



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