Berardius bairdii
– Lower Risk Conservation Dependent
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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MAMMALIA
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Order:
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CETACEA
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Family:
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ZIPHIIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Berardius bairdii
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Species Authority:
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Stejneger, 1883
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Common Name/s:
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| English | — | BAIRD'S BEAKED WHALE, GIANT BOTTLE-NOSED WHALE, NORTH PACIFIC BOTTLENOSE WHALE, NORTHERN FOUR-TOOTHED WHALE |
| French | — | BALEINE À BEC DE BAIRD, BÉRARDIEN DE BAIRD |
| Spanish | — | BALLENA DE PICO DE BAIRD, ZIFIO DE BAIRD |
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LR/cd ver 2.3 (1994)
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Year Assessed:
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1996
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Annotations:
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Needs updating
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Assessor/s:
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Cetacean Specialist Group
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Justification:
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Extract from Reeves et al. (2003, p. 53): "This deep-water species is found only in the North Pacific, mainly north of 34°N in the west and 28°N in the east. It was hunted from shore stations in both North America and Asia and also taken occasionally by Soviet factory ships until the early 1970s. Baird’s Beaked Whales are still subject to entanglement in pelagic driftnets and coastal gillnets (IWC 1989). The continuing commercial hunt for this species in Japan is regulated by a national quota, but review by the IWC Scientific Committee has become a contentious issue. At the 2000 annual meeting of the Scientific Committee, Japan explicitly expressed its unwillingness to subject its research and management program for this species to international scrutiny (IWC 2001a, p.53). Three putative western Pacific stocks are hunted, one off the east coast of Japan, one in the Sea of Japan, and the other in the Sea of Okhotsk (Kasuya and Miyashita 1997). The quota for the three stocks, combined, was set at 40 whales per year in 1983, increased to 60 in 1988, reduced to 54 in 1990, and increased to 62 in 1999. Surveys in the 1980s and early 1990s produced abundance estimates of 1,260 (CV 45%) and 5,029 (CV 56%) in the Sea of Japan and off the Pacific coast, respectively (IWC 2001). A more frequent and rigorous assessment of stock status is needed to ensure that the hunt does not deplete any of the affected whale populations."
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History:
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| 1994 | - | Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994) |
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Geographic Range
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Countries:
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Native:
Canada; Japan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Mexico; Russian Federation; United States
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FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
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Native:
Pacific-eastern central; Pacific-northeast; Pacific-northwest
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Habitat and Ecology
