IPHC Opportunistic Albatross Obs 1998-2002
International Pacific Halibut Commission

IPHC Annual halibut stock assessments

Summary of opportunistic short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) observations during IPHC stock assessment cruises in Oregon, Washington, Gulf of Alaska, Aleutians, and Bering Sea. These are continuing surveys.

To provide information on the seasonal and interannual distribution of the highly-endangered Short-tailed albatross population off the West Coast of North America.

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Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
year	Year of observation
month	Month of observation
day	Day of observation
latitude	Latitude of sighting
longitude	Longitude of sighting
species	Species observed
gender	Gender observed
age	Age observed
ageing_method	Aging method
ageing_citation	Aging citation
documentation	Documentation
organization	Organization
investigator	Investigator
citation	Citation
spatialres_decdeg	Spatial resolution
oid	Unique ID (generated by SEAMAP)