OceanCare cetacean sightings in Sicily, Italy 2016-2019
OceanCare

Silvia Frey, OceanCare

This dataset comprises the work carried out by OceanCare in the waters east and north of Sicily, Italy between 2016-2019. The project was dedicated to survey cetacean populations in these waters. Cetacean spatial and temporal distribution is studied using boat-based surveys.

OceanCare is a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in 1989 in Switzerland. The organization is dedicated to the protection of marine mammals and the conservation of the marine environment. The association works at national and international level in the areas of whaling, industrial fishing, environmental changes, seal hunting, dolphin captivity, and cetacean research. OceanCare has the Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a partner of the UNEP/CMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS). With this cetacean monitoring project OceanCare provides long-term data on cetacean abundance in the Mediterranean Sea.

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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 noted 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
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
obs_date	Date of the sighting
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
species	Scientific name originally recorded
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
lat	Latitude in decimal degrees
lon	Longitude in decimal degrees
group_size_min	Minimum group size
group_size_max	Maximum group size
group_size	Average of min and max group sizes (rounded to nearest interger)
on_effort	Flag indicating on / off effort
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP