Cap'n Fish's Cruises sightings
Cap'n Fish's Cruises
Dataset credit
Dominique Caverly, Cap'n Fish's Cruises
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Dominique Caverly |
Cap'n Fish's Cruises |
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Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Caverly, D. 2022. Cap'n Fish's Cruises sightings. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2185) on yyyy-mm-dd. 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.
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Abstract
Data was collected during 3-5 hour public whale watching trips conducted out of Boothbay Harbor, Maine by Cap'n Fish's Cruises. Data is hand collected by on board naturalist.
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Purpose
N/A
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Supplemental information
Sighting times were not recorded. Several records do not have coordinates.
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References
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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 |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
date | Date of the sighting |
time | Time of the sighting not recorded (always 00:00:00) |
common_name | Species common name |
species | Species scientific name |
sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
number_of_individuals | Group size originally recorded |
obs_count | Integer group size |
latitude_original | Latitude in original format |
longitude_original | Longitude in original format |
latitude | Latitude of animal in decimal degrees |
longitude | Longitude of animal in decimal degrees |
notes | Notes |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 2185 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 288 |
Sea turtles | 1 |
Rays and sharks | 0 |
Other species | 1 |
Non spatial | 32 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 322 |
Date, Begin | 2020-07-03 |
Date, End | 2021-10-11 |
Temporal prec. | 111000 |
Latitude | 43.40 - 43.81 |
Longitude | -69.77 - -69.44 |
Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
Platform | Boat |
Data type | Animal sighting |
Effort | N/A |
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Traveled (km) | 0 |
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Registered | 2022-03-22 |
Updated | 2022-04-07 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (Minimum) |
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