Photographic Identification of Humpback and Blue Whales off the US West Coast: Results and Updated Abundance Estimates from 2008 Field Season

• Main Authors: Calambokidis, John, Falcone, Erin, Douglas, Annie, Schlender, Lisa, Huggins, Jessie
• Other Authors: CASCADIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE OLYMPIA WA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Ecology; Biological Oceanography; *WHALES; TABLES(DATA); PHOTOGRAPHS; POSITION(LOCATION); HABITATS; PHOTOIDENTIFICATION; HUMPBACK WHALES; BLUE WHALES; ABUNDANCE ESTIMATES; PETERSEN MARK RECAPTURE ESTIMATES; Petersen; Scripps; Blue whale
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA539301; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA539301

Photographic identification of humpback and blue whales was conducted along the US West Coast in 2008 for the primary purposes of generating updated abundance estimates of both species using mark-recapture. We conducted 66 days of dedicated and opportunistic photoidentification surveys off Californi...