Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)

"This report includes a summary of the most recent visual surveys that were conducted in the winter (February-March) and summer (August-September) of 2015, the movements of a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) that were satellite tagged during the PIFSC Mariana Archipelago Cetacean Survey in May-June, 2015, the results of nuclear and mitochondrial analysis of short-finned pilot whale samples collected during small-boat surveys of the southernmost Mariana islands (2011-2014), and analysis of beaked whale occurrence long-term passive acoustic data set for 2014-15. Analyses of acoustic data for baleen whales are still underway and will be reported at a later time"--page 2, 1st paragraph. [doi:10.7289/V5H70CTG (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5H70CTG)]

http://doi.org/10.7289/V5H70CTG

Technical Report

Mariana Islands

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)