DNA analysis of the old bones after a comprehensive search of Basque whaling ports from the 16th to the 17th century, in the Strait of Belle Isle and Gulf of St. Lawrence found that the right whale was by then less than 1% of the whales taken.
DNK analiza starih kostiju nakon sveobuhvatne istrage baskijskih kitolovnih luka od 16. do 17. stoljeća u tjesnacu Belle Isle i zaljevu St. Lawrence otkrila je da pravi kit bio manje od 1% ulovljenih kitova.