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Biscayan right whale

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Biscayan right whale (plural Biscayan right whales)

  1. A species of baleen whale, Eubalaena glacialis, of the north Atlantic Ocean.
    • 1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 725:
      Other early hunters of whales included [...] the Basques, who developed the first organized whale fishery [...] in the Bay of Biscay, and who managed through overfishing virtually to eliminate an entire stock of great whales - those known as the Biscayan right whales.

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