The Plagiostomia : Sharks, skates, and rays / by Samuel Garman ; with seventy-seven plates.

v.36 (1913) plates

REACH: A killer whale for SMEs? CEPS Policy Brief No. 307, 9 December 2013

REACH is a very demanding system for any business either large or small, yet right from the start one of the more serious concerns was whether and how SMEs could cope with the Regulation. After all, some 27,600 companies in EU chemistry are SMEs (95% of all firms). Seven years down the line, many of these fears are materialising. Assuming no significant changes are introduced to REACH, this paper suggests the following recommendations: Above all, we strongly encourage SMEs to start early and develop a strategy for REACH compliance well before 2018. Address the potential competition law implications of current SIEF arrangements, e.g. through a Guidance document from DG Competition by 2014 (in time for 2018) Facilitate the exchange of information along the value chain by adopting pragmatic approach to the content and format of Safety Data Sheets. More can be done on the IT front as well, for instance by developing tools that generate compliant Safety Data Sheets. Improve the communication of REACH and its intended goals, that is, the health and environmental benefits, to the wider public. SMEs regret the unawareness of the public in the light of the enormous efforts they have to undertake. In the event of a later review of REACH, the logic should be risk-based rather than hazard-based.

(Table 1) Organohalogen contaminants in adipose tissue of captive sledge dogs (Canis familiaris) fed with whale blubber or pork fat

Studies on the fate of organohalogen contaminants (OHCs) in wild top predator mammals in the Arctic have often been a challenge due to important knowledge deficiencies in the life history of the sampled animals. The present study investigated the influence of age, dietary and trans-generational factors on the fate of major lipophilic chlorinated and brominated OHCs in adipose tissue of a potential surrogate captive species for the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), the sledge dog (Canis familiaris) in West Greenland. Adult female sledge dogs (P) and their sexually-mature (F1) and/or pre-weaning pups (F1-MLK) were divided into an exposed group (EXP) fed blubber from a Greenland minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and a control group (CON) given commercially available pork fat. Large dietary treatment-related differences in summed and individual congener/compound adipose tissue concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), chlordanes (CHLs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were found between the EXP and CON groups for all the sledge dog cohorts. However, among the F1-MLK, F1 and P dogs in both of the EXP and CON groups, little or no difference existed in PBDE, HCB, CHL and PCB concentrations, suggesting higher state of equilibrium in adipose tissue concentrations from a very early stage of life. In contrast, the distribution pattern (proportions to the summed concentrations) of OHC classes, and the major congeners/ compounds constituting those classes, varied on a dietary group- and/or cohort-dependent manner. The present captive sledge dog study demonstrated the importance of the confounding effects of diet composition, mother-pup association (maternal transfer), reproductive status (nursing), and to a lesser extent age in the fate of OHCs in adipose tissue of a large top carnivore mammal.

Follow the whale /

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Report of the Hawaiian Humpback Whale Sanctuary Workshop Committee : December 12-14, 1979

Mode of access: Internet.

The whale and his captors, or, The whaleman's adventures, and the whale's biography : as gathered on the homeward cruise of the 'Commodore Preble'.

Mode of access: Internet.

The mariner's library of voyager's companion : Containing narratives of the most popular voyages from the time of Columbus to the present day; with accounts of remarkable shipwrecks, naval adventures, the whale-fishery, &c. and illustrated by fine engravings.

Title vignette.

A voyage to the Pacific : descriptive of the customs, usages, and sufferings on board of Nantucket whale-ships /

Photocopy of the original.

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary : final environmental impact statement, management plan.

"A federal/state partnership for the protection of humpback whales and their habitat."

Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery /

Publisher's advertisement: p. [1-18] at end.

Speech of Mr. Grinnell, of Massachusetts on the tariff, with statistical tables of the whale fishery of the United States ...

"Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 1, 1844."

Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions , with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery.

Added t.p., illus.

The northern whale-fishery,

Mode of access: Internet.

Communication on the structure and economy of the Greenland whale, made at the Royal institution of Great Britain.

In Franklin institute, Philadelphia. Journal. Philadelphia, 1829. 21 cm. v. 4, new series. p. 21-31.

Uncle Philip's conversations with the young people about the whale fishery and polar regions.

Title vignette.