SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2006, Cruise 1631

Original provider:NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)Dataset credits:Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAAAbstract:This 2006 eastern tropical Pacific cetacean line-transect survey was part of the Stenella Abundance Research Project (STAR), a multi-year cetacean and ecosystem assessment study designed to assess the status of dolphin stocks which have been taken as incidental catch by the yellowfin tuna purse-seine fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. This survey was conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard NOAA ships David Starr Jordan and McArthur II for a combined total of approximately 22,000 kilometers surveyed from late July to early December 2006. 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 by the NOAA Ship McArthur II.