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: Víkingsson, Gísli A, Pike, Daniel G, Desportes, Geneviève, Øien, Nils, Gunnlaugsson, Thorvaldur, Bloch, Dorete
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2013
• Subjects: distribution; abundance; fin whales; Balaenoptera physalus; North Atlantic; surveys; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Iceland
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/NAMMCOSP/article/view/2705; https://doi.org/10.7557/3.2705

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...