Name: NEFSC Harbor Porpoise 1991
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Original provider: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Dataset credits: National Marine Fisheries Service Abstract: The ship survey was performed from 22 July 1991 to 30 August 1991 to estimate the abundance and spatial distribution of harbor porpoises. The study area, covering approximately 13,300 nm , was from Port Clyde, ME to 2 St. John, New Brunswick over to the Nova Scotian coast, up to Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Citation

Palka, D. 2013. NEFSC Harbor Porpoise 1991. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/f095db80.

Published

October 07, 2025 at 20:32

License

To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_288

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_288

Contacts

Debi Palka
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

782

total submitted occurrences

782

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		782	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	782		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	782		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		782	100.0%
ON_LAND		2	0.3%

NEFSC Harbor Porpoise 1991

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data