Cruise Results: NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter Cruise GU-04-02 (027) 13 April – 11 June 2004, A Study of Sperm Whales and other Oceanic Cetaceans in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

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• Corporate Authors:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
• Description:
  The U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires that stocks of marine mammal species in U.S. waters be maintained at or above their optimum sustainable population level (OSP), defined as the number of animals which results in the maximum net productivity. To meet this requirement for each stock, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) estimates annual human-caused mortality and potential biological removal (PBR), the maximum number of animals that may be removed from a stock due to human activities ( e.g., fisheries bycatch) while allowing the stock to reach or maintain its OSP.
• Content Notes:
  This report was created in 2004 and published at NOAA’s Institutional Repository in February 2023.
• Keywords:
  • Marine mammals
  • Cetaceans
  • Visual observations
  • Acoustic survey
  • Biopsy sampling
  • Photo identification
  • CTD
• Series:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document MMTD ; 2023-03
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/467a-0518
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Cruise Report
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/48858/noaa_48858_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 637.14 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
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