SWFSC OR, CA, WA Line-Transect Experiment (Orcawale) (1605)
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)

Coastal Marine Mammal Program
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

This 1996 line-transect survey was designed to estimate the abundance of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard NOAA Ships David Starr Jordan and McArthur for a combined total of approximately 15,000 kilometers surveyed from mid July to early November 1996. This dataset provides the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end points of the line-transect survey.

The primary purpose of this survey was to estimate the abundance of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles.

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Von Saunder, Alexandra, and Jay Barlow. 1999. A report of the Oregon, California and Washington line-transect experiment (Orcawale) conducted in west coast waters during summer/fall 1996. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-264

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.

Attributes in dataset provided

Attribute (table column)	Description
tsn	Species ITIS TSN
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)