TWO SPECIES OF WHALES HEAVILY EXPLOITED BY EARLY WHALING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
(Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, NOAA Permit # 665–
FIGURE 8.10 The depletion of populations of North Atlantic right whales and bowhead whales by early whalers showed for the first time the capacity of humans to deplete marine resources once thought to be inexhaustible.
(Corey Accardo/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service)