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      <citeinfo><origin>Stevick, P</origin><pubdate>2006</pubdate><title>Allied Humpback Whale Catalogue, 1976 - 2003</title><onlink>https://doi.org/10.82144/3547cada</onlink><serinfo><sername>OBIS-SEAMAP</sername><issue>73</issue></serinfo><pubinfo><pubplace>http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/73</pubplace><publish>OBIS-SEAMAP</publish></pubinfo><edition>Version 1.0.0</edition></citeinfo>
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      <current>ground condition</current>
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          <begdate>1976-02-15</begdate>
          <enddate>2003-08-23</enddate>
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      <progress>Complete</progress>
      <update>None planned</update>
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    <accconst>Open public unless otherwise noted. See Use Constraints for details.</accconst>
    <useconst>1. Not to use data obtained from OBIS-SEAMAP in any publication, product, or commercial application without proper attribution to the original data provider(s) and OBIS-SEAMAP unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy. Citations or credits are suggested as attribution. If the data you downloaded come from multiple datasets, a citation or credit to each of the datasets is required.

Suggested citation for this dataset:

Stevick, P. 2006. Allied Humpback Whale Catalogue, 1976 - 2003. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/73) on yyyy-mm-dd.

Suggested citation for OBIS-SEAMAP:

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

2. To forward the citation of any publication / report that made use of the data / tools provided by OBIS-SEAMAP for inclusion in our list of references.

3. Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. 

4. The burden for determining fitness for use of the downloaded data for any analyses lies entirely with the user. OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers do not support outcomes of your analyses that used the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP.

5. To consider inclusion of the accompanying transect (effort) dataset if available into the methodology of your analyses.

6. Not to redistribute the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP through any media without contect from OBIS-SEAMAP and the original data providers unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy.</useconst>
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          <cntper>Peter Stevick</cntper>
          <cntorg>Bioscience Research Institute, University of Southern Maine</cntorg>
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          <addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
          <address>Bioscience Research Institute&#xD;
University of Southern Maine&#xD;
96 Falmouth St.&#xD;
176 Science Building</address>
          <city>Portland</city>
          <state>Maine</state>
          <postal>04104-9300</postal>
          <country>USA</country>
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        <cntemail>PeterStevick@aol.com </cntemail>
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    <datacred>College of the Atlantic, Allied Whale</datacred>
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  <crossref><citeinfo><origin>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</origin><pubdate>2009</pubdate><title>OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions</title><geoform>vector digital data</geoform><serinfo><sername>Oceanography</sername><issue>22(2):104-115</issue></serinfo><onlink>http://www.tos.org/oceanography/article/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle</onlink></citeinfo></crossref></idinfo>
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    <metc><cntinfo><cntperp><cntper>Benjamin Best</cntper><cntorg>Duke University</cntorg></cntperp><cntpos/><cntaddr><addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype><address>A321 LSRC, Box 90328</address><city>Durham</city><state>NC</state><postal>27708</postal><country>USA</country></cntaddr><cntvoice>919-613-8021</cntvoice><cntemail>bbest@duke.edu</cntemail></cntinfo></metc>
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      <metprof>Biological Data Profile</metprof>
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  <metd>2006-09-12</metd></metainfo>
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