Rice’s Whale (Balaenoptera ricei) Passive Acoustic Detections Report: July 2022 - July 2023

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• Personal Author:
  Debich, Amanda J. ; Frasier, Kaitlin E. ; Hildebrand, John A. ; Garrison, Lance P. ; Soldevilla, Melissa S.
• Corporate Authors:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (Key Biscayne, Fla.) ; Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) ; OPR (Office of Protected Resources) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies)
• Description:
  The Rice’s whale (Balaenoptera ricei) is the only year-round baleen whale found in the Gulf of America, and has a population size of fewer than 100 individuals (Garrison et al., 2020). The majority of visual and acoustic detections of this endangered species occur along the northeastern shelf break near the De Soto Canyon, and some visual detections and passive acoustic recordings indicate some whales persistently occur over a broader range in the Gulf than previously thought (Soldevilla, Debich, et al., 2022).
• Series:
  Southeast Fisheries Science Center reference document ; MMTD-2025-08
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/0xac-5t39
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Reference Document
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70896/noaa_70896_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 533.64 KB]
• Collection(s):
  NOAA Cooperative Institutes ; National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5d13793a3e835725f43f2b50b0a07b2229fa481058137d3b4d2170a33cd35826bbe660aa600c5c230d0890ae477b36ce7c15149f771295de0839c4d79e79405d