Distribution and abundance of fin whales ( Balaenoptera physalus ) in the Northeast and Central Atlantic as inferred from the North Atlantic Sightings Surveys 1987-2001

• Published in: NAMMCO Scientific Publications
• Main Authors: Gísli A Víkingsson, Daniel G Pike, Geneviève Desportes, Nils Øien, Thorvaldur Gunnlaugsson, Dorete Bloch
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2013
• Subjects: distribution; abundance; fin whales; Balaenoptera physalus; North Atlantic; surveys; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7557/3.2705; https://doaj.org/article/83cfdef4683045fbb716dd74237bec80

North Atlantic Sightings Surveys (NASS) is a series of large scale international cetacean line transect surveys, conducted in 1987, 1989, 1995 and 2001, that covered a large part of the central and eastern North Atlantic. Target species were fin (Balaenoptera physalus), common minke (B. acutorostrat...