NYSDEC aerial surveys ...

Original provider: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Dataset credits: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Abstract: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Marine Resources contracted Tetra Tech to conduct aerial whale monitor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rickard, Meghan
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: OBIS-SEAMAP 2022
Subjects:
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Sea turtles,Visual Sighting,Aerial
Observation
Occurrence
Long Island
Balaenoptera musculus
Blue whale
Eubalaena glacialis
Fin whale
Humpback Whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
North Atlantic
North Atlantic right whale
Physeter macrocephalus
Sei Whale
Sperm whale
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/n4wpnp
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b463a5ba-3126-44e1-b017-8020cea66bd1
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Summary:Original provider: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Dataset credits: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Abstract: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Marine Resources contracted Tetra Tech to conduct aerial whale monitoring in the New York Bight (NYB). Monitoring consisted of 36 monthly line-transect aerial surveys starting in March 2017 and ending in February 2020. The NYB survey area is a 43,449 square kilometer area of ocean from the south shore of Long Island to the continental shelf break. These surveys focused on six large whale species: the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whale (B. physalus), humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), sei whale (B. borealis), and sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). This longitudinal multi-year study provides new insight into the occurrence, relative abundance, behavior, and densities and abundance of the six large whale species, as ...

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