Global Short Term Trend: Decline of 10-30%
Global Long Term Trend: Decline of >90%
Comments: Formerly abundant, but hunted to near-extinction. North Atlantic population thought to have increased somewhat after the cessation of whaling, but apparently began declining once more after about 1990 (Caswell et al. 1999, Fugiwara and Caswell 2001).
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