Join us for Cetacean Sessions #3 on Thursday, April 29th at 4:00 pm PT. In this session Russell Fielding will provide an overview of some of the current artisanal cetacean harvesting efforts throughout the North and South Atlantic Oceans. We will discuss his book, “The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic” as well as look at three papers he has led authorship on this year: "Demographic and geographic patterns of cetacean-based food product consumption and potential mercury exposure within a Caribbean whaling community" published in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, "Artisanal and aboriginal subsistence whaling in Saint Vincent and Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean): History, catch characteristic, and needs for research and management" published in Frontiers in Marine Science, and “History of whaling in Annobón, Equatorial Guinea, and new evidence of its continued occurrence”published in the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. These discussions will be followed by live Q&A with the audience.

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Cetacean Sessions is a bi-weekly webinar series where we discuss impactful recently published scientific research on cetaceans with those conducting it around the world. Cetacean Sessions is informal, educational, interactive and geared towards those working with or interested in cetaceans.

Russell Fielding is an environmental geographer focused on understanding how people make healthy and sustainable use of natural resources in contexts characterized by societal and environmental change. Born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Fielding conducts research mostly in the coastal and island settings of the Caribbean. He is the author of The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, published in 2018 by Harvard University Press, and teaches in the HTC Honors College at Coastal Carolina University.

Bay Cetology enables conservation and understanding of cetacean populations that are data deficient or threatened by climate change and human development. Our marine biologists and research technicians use various expertise to conduct field studies, analyze data, and communicate findings. Bay Cetology was founded by Jared Towers in 2017 and is based out of Alert Bay (Home of the Killer Whale), in the unceded traditional territory of the 'Namgis First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. See more about our previous work and current projects at https://baycetology.org

Cetacean Session #3