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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
The 2008 Oregon, California and Washington Line-Transect Experiment (ORCAWALE) was designed to estimate the abundance of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard the NOAA Ship McArthur II for a total of approximately 12,800 kilometers surveyed from late July to the end of November 2008. 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. more
The primary purpose of this survey was to estimate the abundance of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles. This dataset is supplemental to the following datasets: SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CAMMS 1991, Cruise 1426 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 1996, Cruise 1604 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 1996, Cruise 1605 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 2001, Cruise 1617 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, ORCAWALE 2001, Cruise 1619 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CSCAPE 2005, Cruise 1627 SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, CSCAPE 2005, Cruise 1628 Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, I, Pacific, North America, West Coast, Cetacea, Pinnipedia Temporal coverage
29 July 2008 - 30 November 2008 Parameter
Occurrence of biota Contributors
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Fisheries Service; Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), more, data creator
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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: 2015-04-22
Information last updated: 2015-04-22
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