IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership

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A collaborative research programme formed within the IWC to continue work on Antarctic whale populations after the end of the SOWER survey series, with the Antarctic Blue Whale Project as a flagship. It is the reason the Antarctic subspecies has any modern time series at all: its dedicated voyages in 2013, 2015 and 2019 added 119 photo-identified whales to the Antarctic Blue Whale Catalogue, and its acoustic trends working group holds more than 300,000 hours of Southern Ocean passive acoustic data. Its existence is itself an argument - that after whaling ended, the only way to know what remained was to go and look on purpose.

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Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)assesses
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Passive Acoustic Monitoring Arraysuses
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