Joint Deepwater Systematics and Marine Mammal Survey CRUISE PERIOD AND AREA
was the western North Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of Bear Seamount, located at approximately 39 o 55 ' North latitude, 067 o 25 ' West longitude, and along the continental slope south of George’s Bank. Figure 1 shows the area of operations and trawling station locations. OBJECTIVES The...
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.365.3099 http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/surveys/documents/CruiseReportDE02-06.pdf |
| Summary: | was the western North Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of Bear Seamount, located at approximately 39 o 55 ' North latitude, 067 o 25 ' West longitude, and along the continental slope south of George’s Bank. Figure 1 shows the area of operations and trawling station locations. OBJECTIVES The cruise objectives were twofold: (1) to explore the biodiversity in the vicinity of Bear Seamount and to collect nekton (especially fish and cephalopod) specimens in bottom and midwater samples from the maximum depths possible and (2) to collect information on the distributional relationship between cetaceans, particularly beaked whales and sperm whales, oceanographic features, and potential prey. The nekton collections included tissue samples, photographs of freshly collected specimens and systematic characters, and voucher specimens for deposition in museum |
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