U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of America marine mammal stock assessments 2024

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hayes, Sean A. (editor) ; Josephson, Elizabeth (editor) ; Maze-Foley, Katherine (editor) ; Rosel, Patricia E. (editor) ; McCordic, Jessica (editor)
• Corporate Authors:
  Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (Key Biscayne, Fla.) ; ERT.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; NEFSC (Northeast Fisheries Science Center) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies)
• Description:
  Under the 1994 amendments of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) were required to generate stock assessment reports (SARs) for all marine mammal stocks in waters within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The first reports for the Atlantic (includes the Gulf of America) were published in July 1995 (Blaylock et al. 1995). The MMPA requires NMFS and USFWS to review these reports annually for strategic stocks of marine mammals and at least every three years for stocks determined to be non-strategic. Included in this report as appendices are: a summary of serious injury/mortality estimates of marine mammals in observed U.S. fisheries (Appendix I), a summary of NMFS records of large whale human-caused serious injury and mortality (Appendix II), detailed fisheries information (Appendix III), summary tables of abundance estimates generated over recent years and the surveys from which they are derived (Appendix IV), a summary of observed fisheries bycatch (Appendix V), and estimates of human-caused mortality resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Appendix VI).
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-NE 347
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/c8ec-3j48
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• Place as Subject:
  Atlantic Coast (U.S.) ; Gulf Coast (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/73423/noaa_73423_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 20.26 MB]
• Collection(s):
  NOAA Cooperative Institutes ; National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:93842c89dd0d569eaa347b11dc031599ac6b118170a1a3efface11cabbbf6453d874277bcc4d7d555d87e81c4b053b8115e50ca20d8edcefe8ef1b7a019e93e6