Bryde’s Whale (Balaenoptera brydei/edeni) Sightings in the Southern California Bight

Given the paucity of confirmed sightings over the last 20 y, and its traditional, more tropical or low-latitude distribution, the Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera brydei/edeni) 1 has been excluded from recent National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) stock assessment reports of cetaceans occurring in the...

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Main Authors: Mari A. Smultea, Annie B. Douglas, Cathy E. Bacon, Thomas A. Jefferson, Lori Mazzuca
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Pacific
Fin whale
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.434.1119
http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/reports/Smultea_et_al_2012.pdf
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Summary:Given the paucity of confirmed sightings over the last 20 y, and its traditional, more tropical or low-latitude distribution, the Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera brydei/edeni) 1 has been excluded from recent National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) stock assessment reports of cetaceans occurring in the Southern California Bight (SCB) (Carretta et al., 2011). The last U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessment to include the Bryde’s whale was in 2006 (Carretta et al., 2007). During the past five decades, only two confirmed sightings of Bryde’s whales were documented off Southern California (Table 1). In January 1963, a Bryde’s whale (originally misidentified as a fin whale) was seen near La Jolla, California (Nicklin

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