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Radio-tagging of right, humpback and fin whales to study the migrations of 

 those species off the eastern United States. 



1964-4 ; September 17, 1964 ; Robert W. Eisner ; 3 gray whales. 



To study the physiology of the circulatory and respiratory systems of gray 

 whales. No whales were taken under this permit. 



1965-i ; November 30, 1965 ; Palmer T. Beaudette. 



To tag 3 gray whales, ob.sen'e and photograph whale behavior, and to record 

 whale sounds. 



1966-3; May 24, 1966; John Prescott (Marineland of Pacific) ; 2 minke whales. 



1967-2 ; March 7, 1967 ; John Prescott (Marineland of Pacific) ; 2 minke whales. 



1968-3; April 1968; John Prescott (Marineland of Pacific) ; 2 minke whales. 



1969-2; June 21, 1969; John Prescott (Marineland of Pacific) ; 1 gray whale. 



1969-3; February 12, 1969; John Prescott (Marineland of Pacific) ; 2 minke 

 whales. 



Purpose of all permits : To take and hold live for public display ; to investigate 

 techniques of capture and transportation ; to ascertain food requirements ; to 

 study sound production and comparative behavior. No whales were taken under 

 these permits. 



1968-1 ; January 22, 1968 ; John Schultz ; 2 gray whales. 



To tag migrating gray whales with electronic tracking equipment ; to establish 

 feasibility of electronic tagging and tracking; to observe behavior during 

 migration. 



1969-^ ; March 1969 ; John Schultz ; 1 gray whale. 



To tag and investigate the behavior during the northward migration ; to 

 observe the behavior in the oceanic region influenced by the Santa Barbara oil 

 spill. 



1970-3 ; April 1970 ; Kenneth S. Norris ; 4 sperm whales, 2 humpback whales. 



For purposes of live scientific studies on diving physiology, acoustic emissions, 

 behavior and neurophysiology. No whales were taken under this permit. 



1970-1 ; October 29, 1970 ; Kenneth S. Norris (i>er permit 1970-3) . 



1971-2 ; January 18, 1971 ; J. Thomas Whitman ; 3 sperm whales. 



To capture and hold for public display ; to study aspects of transportation and 

 holding of large marine mammals. No whales have been taken to date under this 

 permit. 



1971-3; March 2, 1971; David W. Kenney (Sea World) ; 2 gray whales. 



To take for public display and biological research on nutrition, physiology, 

 pathology and behavior. One whale was captured alive in Mexican waters under 

 this permit (a ijermit was also issued by the Government of Mexico). 



1971-4; August 6, 1971; J. Thomas Whitman (Marine World) ; 2 humpback 

 whales. 



To capture and hold alive for puri>oses of "display, .scientific research, and edu- 

 cational use." No whales have been taken to date under this i>ermit. 



1971-6; August 4, 1971; G. L. Kooyman ; Sperm whale (no number). 



To carry out observations of surface and dive times, behavior at the surface, 

 and to make undenvater recordings of vocalizations. 



Publications on Cetaceans by NMFS Staff 



Caldwell, David K., Melba C. Caldwell, and Dale W. Rice. 1966. Behavior of the 

 sperm whale, Physeter catodon L. In Whales, dolphins, and porpoises, edited 

 by Kenneth S. Norris, University of California Press, pp. 678-717. 



Fiscus, Clifford H.. and Karl Niggol. 1965. Observations of cetaceans off Califor- 

 nia, Oregon, and Washington. U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rep. Fish. 498, 

 27 pp. 



Fiscus, Clifford H, Dale W. Rice, and Ancel M. Johnson. 1969. New records of 

 Mcsoplodon stcjnegeri and Ziphius cavirostris from Alaska. J. Mammal. 50(2) : 

 127. 



Gilmore, Raymond M. 1960. A census of the California gray whale. U.S. Fish 

 Wildl. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rep. 342. 



Kasuya, Toshio, and Dale W. Rice. 1970. Notes on baleen plates and on arrange- 

 ment of parasitic barnacles of gray whale, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. Inst. 22 :39-43. 



Neiland, K. A., D. W. Rice, and B. L. Holden. 1970. Helminths of marine mam- 

 mals, I. The genus Nasitrema, air sinus flukes of delphinid cetacea. J. Parasitol. 

 56(2) :305-316. 



