Dataset

SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1615

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Original provider: NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) Dataset credits: Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA Abstract: This 2000 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 for a combined total of approximately 31,000 kilometers surveyed from late July to early December 2000. 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 David Starr Jordan.

Citation: Moore, J. and D. Weller. 2021. SWFSC Marine Mammal Survey, STAR 2000, Cruise 1615. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/9faf1618.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 01:11

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1043

Dave Weller
NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

1,528
occurrence records
40
taxa
28
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 1,528
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,528
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,528
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data