NORTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE (Hyperoodon ampullatus): Western North Atlantic Stock

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL REMOVAL; Greenland; Reeves; The Gully; Davis Strait; hyperoodon ampullatus; North Atlantic; Northern bottlenose whale; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.4830; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao1998whnb-wn.pdf

Northern bottlenose whales are characterized as extremely uncommon or rare in waters of the U.S. Atlantic Exclusive Economic Zone. The two sightings of three individuals constituted less than 0.1 % of the 11,156 cetacean sightings in the 1978-82 CETAP surveys. Both sightings were in the spring, alon...