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'BUENOS AIRES, May 10 (
Reuters) - Giant blue-grey sei whales that vanished
from Argentina's Patagonian coast a century ago due to hunting are starting to
flourish once again, demonstrating how species can recover when measures to
protect them are put in place.
In the 1920s and 1930s regular whaling ships along the shores of Argentina, and
beyond, saw populations dwindle. In the last 50 years, global bans on
commercial whaling have helped populations of sei and others revive.
"They disappeared because they were hunted, they did not become extinct but
were so reduced that no one saw them," said Mariano Coscarella, biologist and
researcher in marine ecosystems at the Argentine state science body CONICET.
Coscarella added that it had taken decades for numbers to recover enough that
the whales had again been sighted, which only started to happen again in recent
years.
"In this case it took over 80 years," Coscarella said. "They breed every 2 or 3
years and so it took almost 100 years for them to have appreciable numbers for
people to realize they were there."'
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