resumption of full commercial whaling, most of these larger cetaceans, including some species of baleen whales that appear on the Endangered Species List are, as species, in reality not endangered. Some of these species have been completely protected for many years, and all are currently protected by the moratorium on commercial whaling promulgated by the International Whaling Commission. As with the sperm whales, however, some populations of large baleen whales remain depleted. Brownell et al. (1989) suggest that some of these large whales be removed from the Endangered Species List and that some small cetaceans be added. With the possible exception of the northern right whale, none of the large cetacean species is currently in peril of extinction (Perrin, 1988).

There are more than 40 species of smaller cetaceans, dolphins