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====North Pacific====
====North Pacific====
The blue whale's range is known to encompass much of the North Pacific Ocean, from Kamchatka to southern Japan in the west, and from the Gulf of Alaska and California south to at least Costa Rica in the east. The species is found primarily south of the Aleutian Islands and the [[Bering Sea]]. Whaling and sighting data suggest the existence of at least five subpopulations of blue whales, with an unknown degree of mixing among them:
The blue whale's range is known to encompass much of the North Pacific Ocean, from [[Kamchatka]] to southern Japan in the west, and from the Gulf of Alaska and California south to at least Costa Rica in the east. The species is found primarily south of the Aleutian Islands and the [[Bering Sea]]. Whaling and sighting data suggest the existence of at least five subpopulations of blue whales, with an unknown degree of mixing among them:
*Southern Japan (which appears to have been virtually "extirpated" by whaling)
*Southern Japan (which appears to have been virtually "extirpated" by whaling)
*Northern Japan/Kurils/Kamchatka
*Northern Japan/Kurils/Kamchatka