Minimum Population Estimate

• Main Authors: Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Norway; Pacific; Reeves; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.6667; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/ao1995whki-wn.pdf

Killer whales are characterized as uncommon or rare in waters of the U.S. Atlantic Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) (Katona et al. 1988). The 12 killer whale sightings constituted 0.1 % of the 11,156 cetacean sightings in the 1978-81 CeTAP surveys (CeTAP 1982). The same is true for eastern Canadian wat...