IPHC Opportunistic Albatross Obs 1998-2002

International Pacific Halibut Commission

Dataset credit

IPHC Annual halibut stock assessments

Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	Tracee Geernaert	International Pacific Halibut Commission
Data entry	Benjamin Best	Duke University

Citation

Geernaert, T. 2004. IPHC Opportunistic Albatross Obs 1998-2002. Version 1.0.1. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/1d4b7371.

Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.

Abstract

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.

Purpose

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

Supplemental information

N/A

Change History

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

- 1.0.1 (2025-09-25) - Corrective

geographicCoverage in EML and spatialCoverage in JSON-LD are updated to better represent the bounding box that crosses the anti-meridian.

- 1.0.0 (2004-05-07) - Initial

Initial release

References

Gilroy, H.L., T.O. Geernaert, S.M. Kaimmer, G.H. Williams, and R.J. Trumble. 2000. A feasibility study that investigates options for monitoring bycatch of the short-tailed albatross in the Pacific halibut fishery off Alaska. Prepared for the National Marine Fisheries Service by the Staff of the International Pacific Halibut Commission. 61 pp.

Attributes

Overview

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

Attributes in dataset

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
survey name
organization	Organization
investigator	Investigator
citation	Citation
spatialres_decdeg	Spatial resolution
geom
oid	Unique ID (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)

OBIS-SEAMAP ID	104
DOI	10.82144/1d4b7371
Version	1.0.1
Seabirds	141
Marine mammals	0
Sea turtles	0
Rays and sharks	0
Other species	0
Non spatial	0
Non species	0
Total	141
Date, Begin	1998-06-01
Date, End	2002-08-21
Temporal prec.	111000
Latitude	51.18 - 59.80
Longitude	170.65 - 229.68
Coord. prec.	6 decimal digits
Platform	Boat
Data type	Animal sighting
Effort	N/A
Registered	2004-05-07
Updated	2025-09-25
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Shared with	GBIF OBIS
Metadata in static HTML / FGDC / EML
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