Description
Original provider:
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)
Dataset credits:
Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA
Abstract:
This 1999 eastern tropical Pacific cetacean line-transect survey was part of the Stenella Abundance Research Project (STAR), a multi-year cetacean and ecosystem assessment study designed to assess the status of dolphin stocks which have been taken as incidental catch by the yellowfin tuna purse-seine fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard NOAA ships David Starr Jordan and McArthur for a combined total of approximately 31,000 kilometers surveyed from late July to early December 1999. This dataset provides the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end points of the line-transect survey by the NOAA Ship McArthur.
Purpose:
The primary purpose of the survey was to collect information necessary to estimate abundance of dolphin stocks in the eastern tropical Pacific that are taken as bycatch in the yellowfin tuna purse seine fishery.
Supplemental information:
This dataset is supplemental to the following datasets:
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1986, Cruise 989
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1986, Cruise 990
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1987, Cruise 1080
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1987, Cruise 1081
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1988, Cruise 1164
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1988, Cruise 1165
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1989, Cruise 1267
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1989, Cruise 1268
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1990, Cruise 1369
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, MOPS 1990, Cruise 1370
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1998, Cruise 1610
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1998, Cruise 1611
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1998, Cruise 1612
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 1999, Cruise 1613
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1615
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1616
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2003, Cruise 1623
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2003, Cruise 1624
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2006, Cruise 1630
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2006, Cruise 1631
SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR-LITE 2007, Cruise 1634
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