Whale information site

["Martin O'Brien"<>]

                              For information

For those interested in whales in Australian waters the folowing
Environment Australia website may be of interest.
             http://www.anca.gov.au/plants/manageme/whaind.htm

Interestingly there is no mention of Port Phillip Bay being part of the
Southern Right Whale distribution.  The last record of a SRW in Victoria's
Port Phillip Bay is 1992 I believe, and there have only been 4 records of
this species in the bay in the last 10 years.

Martin O'Brien
Executive Scientific Officer
Scientific Advisory Committee
Threatened Species Program
Department of Natural Resources and Environment
4/250 Victoria Pde.,
East Melbourne,  3002
AUSTRALIA

tel: +61 3 9412 4567
fax: +61 3 9412 4586
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