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Opportunistic marine mammal sightings from commercial whale watching vessels, Montauk, New York 1981-1994
Citation
Kenney, R.D. and K.J. Vigness-Raposa. 2010. Marine mammals and sea turtles of Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and nearby waters: An analysis of existing data for the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan. IN: Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan Volume 2. Appendix A: Technical Reports for the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan 10: 701-1041. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4904
Contact:
Kopelman, Arthur Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
The sightings came originally from the Okeanos Ocean Research Foundation (Samuel S. Sadove, executive director; Okeanos is no longer in existence), and were recorded from commercial whale-watching vessels out of Montauk in late spring and summer of 1981-1994 (primarily the Finback I and Finback II). These sightings are heavily concentrated in the area between eastern Long Island and Block Island and during the whale-watching season, and therefore somewhat biased, but provide valuable information on several less-common species. more
Data records that were missing time, animal count information, or located on land were excluded. One data record with two sighted species listed was also excluded. Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, ANW, USA, New York, Long I., Montauk, Cetacea Geographical coverage ANW, USA, New York, Long I., Montauk [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
2 May 1981 - 14 August 1994 Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Parameter
Occurrence of biota Contributors
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Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-04-13
Information last updated: 2015-04-13
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