A Couple of Books 

Hoelzel, A.R. and Stern, S.J. 2000. Minke Whales. Voyager Press. 

Horwood, J. 1990. Biology and exploitation of the minke whale. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, Florida.

Research Papers for Northeast Pacific Minke Whales

Caretta, J.V., Forney, K.A., Muno, M.M., Barlow, J., Baker, J., Hanson, B., and Lowry, M.J. 2005. United States Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments, 2004. NOAA-Tm-NMFS-SWFSC-375. P. 323. 

Dorsey, E.M., 1983. Exclusive adjoining ranges in individually identified minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Washington State. Can. J. Zool. 61, 174-181.

Dorsey, E.M., Stern, S.J., Hoelzel, A.R. and Jacobsen, J. 1990. Minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) from the west coast of North America: individual recognition and small-scale site fidelity. Reports of the International Whaling Commission (Special Issue 12). 357-368.  

Hoelzel, A.R., Dorsey, E.M., Stern, J., (1989). The foraging specializations of individual minke whales. Anim. Behav., 38, 786-794.

Scheffer, V.B., (1973). Marine mammals in the Gulf of Alaska. In a review of the Oceanography and Renewable Resources of the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Ed. D.H. Rosenburg. 175-207. Inst, Marine Science, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks.  

Stern, J., (1990). Minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) of the Monterey Area. Masters of Arts thesis, San Francisco State University. December 1990.