Soundwatch: Eighteen years of monitoring whale watch vessel activities in the Salish Sea

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Seely, Elizabeth, Osborne, Richard W., Koski, Kari, Larson, Shawn
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Haro; Killer Whale; Orca; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741222/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29272275; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189764

The Soundwatch Boater Education Program is a vessel monitoring and public education outreach program. Soundwatch has been run by The Whale Museum (TWM) during the whale watch season (May through September) in the Haro Strait Region of the Central Salish Sea since 1993. Data collection has been in a...