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Recent advances in whale watching research: 2017 to 2020
E.C.M. Parsons and Courtney E. Smith
International Whaling Commission
2018
Whale watching research encompasses a wide variety of disciplines and fields of study, from monitoring the biological impacts of whale watching activities on cetaceans and assessments of the effectiveness of whale watching management and regulations, to the sociological and economic aspects of whale watching. This article is the latest in a series of annual digests, which describes the variety and findings of whale watching studies published over the past year, since June 2017