Visual and sonobuoy observations of whales taken from research vessel Yushin Maru No.2 in the Bering Sea for the IWC Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research, IWC-POWER, Program from 2017-07-03 to 2017-09-25 (NCEI Accession 0220472) ...

• Main Author: Suzuki, Shinichi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bering Sea; Pacific; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25921/3s2e-8t55; https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0220472

This dataset contains visual and sonobuoy observations of whales taken from research vessel Yushin Maru No.2 in the Bering Sea for the International Whaling Commission Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research, IWC-POWER, Program from 2017-07-03 to 2017-09-25. IWC-POWER cruises in the North Pacific follow the series of IWC/IDCR-SOWER (Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research) cruises that were conducted in the Antarctic since 1978. The 8th annual IWC-POWER cruise was conducted between 03 July and 25 September, 2017 in the eastern part of the Bering Sea. The entire research area was within the US EEZ. The survey was conducted aboard the Japanese R/V Yushin-Maru No.2. The cruise was organized as a joint project between the IWC and Japan. The cruise plan was endorsed at the 67a IWC/Scientific Committee (IWC/SC) meeting (IWC, 2017a). Researchers from Japan, the US and IWC participated in the survey. The cruise had five main objectives: (a) information for the in-depth assessments of North Pacific sei, ...