Comparison of Sower Cpiii abundance estimates For Humpback Whales in area Iv with Jarpa abundance estimates

• Main Author: Branch, Trevor A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Whaling Commission 2006
• Subjects: Butterworth; Prydz Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21461; https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/21461/1/Branch_Comparison_Sower_Cpiii_2006.pdf

Estimates of abundance for humpback whales from IDCR/SOWER surveys have been provided up to and including the 1997/98 survey (Branch and Butterworth, 2001). These surveys did not cover the majority of Area IV. Data on humpback whales in Area IV were extracted from DESS for the IDCR/SOWER surveys in...