The Department of Environment, Heritage, Water & the Arts., 2005:

"Sei whales were hunted by modern whalers primarily after other whale species (such as blue, fin and right whales) had been depleted.  Most populations of sei whales were reduced by extensive whaling from the 1950’s until the 1970’s. International protection was afforded in 1977 for this species.

The Sei whale is one of the less well studied great whales and the current status of most populations is poorly known.

The original southern hemisphere population may have numbered around 100,000. There is no accepted current abundance estimate for sei whales in the southern hemisphere and no estimate for Australian waters."

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Citation and/or URL

Department of the Environment and Heritage, (2005), 'Blue, Fin and Sei Whale Recovery Plan 2005 - 2010', Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra.  

Spatial Coverage

Australian Whale Sanctuary 

Temporal Coverage

Not applicable 

Update Frequency

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Other Information

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