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Description
The 2008 Vaquita Expedition was a joint US-Mexican effort to provide the best scientific data possible to aid the government of Mexico in conservation decisions for the vaquita. The study area was the northern end of the Gulf of California south to about 30.8 degrees north latitude. A line-transect survey of the deeper water of the study area was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard the NOAA ship David Starr Jordan in October and November 2008. 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. more

The primary objective was to collect data to estimate the abundance vaquita, or Gulf of California harbor porpoise.
This dataset is supplemental to the following datasets: SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, Vaquita 1997, Cruise 1608

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals, Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ISE, Mexico, California Gulf, Cetacea, Testudines

Geographical coverage
ISE, Mexico, California Gulf [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
16 October 2008 - 25 November 2008

Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Testudines [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Fisheries Service; Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), moredata creator

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OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-04-16
Information last updated: 2015-04-22
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