Eschrichtius robustus, Gray whale : fisheries
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Eschrichtius robustus   (Lilljeborg, 1861)

Gray whale

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Noms Noms communs | Synonymes | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Eschrichtiidae

Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution Écologie

Pélagique; océanodrome (Réf. 75906); profondeur 1 - 2500 m, usually 30 - 500 m.  Tropical; 90°N - 0°S, 115°E - 105°W

Distribution Territories | Zones FAO | Écosystèmes | Occurrences | Introductions

Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic: Extinct in North Atlantic; two populations in North Pacific. Tropical to polar. [western population: IUCN 2010 (Ref. 84930): CR, C2a(ii);E.]

Longueur à la première maturité / Taille / Poids / Âge

Maturité: Lm 1,220.0  range ? - ? cm Max length : 1,500 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Réf. 1394); poids max. publié: 35.0 t (Réf. 1394); âge max. reporté: 48 années (Réf. 128170)

Biologie     Glossaire (ex. épibenthique)

Lives within a few tens of kilometers of shore. Bottom feeders that feed primarily on swarming mysids and tube-dwelling amphipods in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food opportunistically. The North Atlantic stock was apparently wiped-out by whalers in the 18th century. A western North Pacific (Korean) stock may also have been extirpated in the mid 20th century; its continued existence as a small remnant is still debated. The eastern North Pacific (California-Chukotka) stock nearly suffered the same fate twice, once in the late 1800s and again in the early 1900s. Both times, a respite in commercial whaling allowed the population to recover. About 170 to 200 from this latter stock are killed annually under special permit by commercial whalers on behalf of Soviet aborigines, and one or a few are taken in some years by Alaskan Eskimos. Since receiving IWC protection in 1946 and the end of research harvests in the late 1960s this population has increased, and now apparently equals or exceeds pre-exploitation numbers (Ref. 1394). Lives within a few tens of kilometers of shore. Bottom feeders that feed primarily on swarming mysids and tube-dwelling amphipods in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food opportunistically (Ref. 1394).

Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves

Référence principale Références | Coordinateur | Collaborateurs

Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber 1993 FAO species Identification Guide: Marine Mammals of the World. Rome, FAO. 320 p. + 587 figures. (Réf. 1394)

Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Réf. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Préoccupation mineure (LC) ; Date assessed: 30 December 2017

statut CITES (Réf. 108899)


CMS (Réf. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Menace pour l'homme

Utilisations par l'homme

Pêcheries: commercial
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Timbres, pièces de monnaie, divers
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Sources Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - pêcheries: Résumé espèce, landings search; Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (génôme, nucléotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Arbre de Vie | Wikipedia (aller à, chercher) | Zoological Record

Estimations basées sur des modèles

Résilience
(Ref. 69278):
Milieu, temps minimum de doublement de population : 1,4 à 4,4 années (K=0.19-0.25; tm=8; tmax=48)
Vulnérabilité de la pêche
(Réf. 71543)
Very high vulnerability (79 of 100).
Catégorie de prix
(Réf. 80766):
Unknown.