Capture-recapture abundance and survival estimates of three cetacean species in Icelandic coastal waters using trained scientist-volunteers

• Published in: Journal of Sea Research
• Main Authors: Bertulli, Chiara G., Guery, Loreleï, McGinty, Niall, Suzuki, Ailie, Brannan, Naomi, Marques, Tania, Rasmussen, Marianne H., Gimenez, Olivier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Faxaflói; Skjálfandi; baleen whale; Iceland; minke whale
• Online Access: http://agritrop.cirad.fr/603726/; http://agritrop.cirad.fr/603726/1/1-s2.0-S1385110116303628-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2017.10.001

Knowledge of abundance and survival of humpback whales, white-beaked dolphins and minke whales are essential to manage and conserve these species in Icelandic coastal shelf waters. Our main goal was to test the feasibility of employing inexpensive research methods (data collected by trained-scientis...