Common Bottlenose Dolphin Photographic Identification Mark-Recapture Surveys Collected from Small Boats in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (NorTex Catalog) from to 2014-03-29 to 2019-06-28

Original provider:NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDataset credits:Texas Marine Mammal Stranding NetworkNational Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science CenterErrol Ronje, NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationAbstract:As part of the marine mammal stock assessment program of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), photographic identification capture mark recapture data were collected to estimate the abundance of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) by the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Pascagoula, Mississippi Laboratory, and the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network from 2014-03-29 to 2019-06-28. This datasetcontains spatiotemporal data from the "NorTex" catalog, including visual observations and dorsal fin images for individual dolphins encountered in the coastal and estuarine waters of north Texas and western Louisiana including East Matagorda Bay, West Bay, Galveston Bay, and Sabine Lake.