Browsing by Subject "marine mammals"
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A comparison of Environmental Impact Statement methodologies for assessing sound propagation, density determination and impacts on protected marine mammals: BOEMRE & the U.S. Navy
(2011-04-28)Sound in the world oceans is an increasingly important conservation issue as human impact throughout the oceans continues to grow without signs of abatement. Deep-water background noise is reported to be doubling every decade. ... -
A Social and Ecological Evaluation of Marine Mammal Take Reduction Teams
(2014)There have been few efforts to evaluate the actual and perceived effectiveness of environmental management programs created by consensus-based, multi-stakeholder negotiation or negotiated rulemaking. Previous evaluations ... -
An Assessment of Sea Turtle, Marine Mammal and Seabird Bycatch in the Wider Caribbean Region
(2011)Sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds are vulnerable to higher mortality rates as a direct function of incidental capture (bycatch) in marine fisheries. Their migratory behavior exposes them to multiple fishing gear ... -
Analyzing the Role of Sound in the Endangered Species Act: A Petition for Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Critical Habitat in the Gulf of Mexico
(2017-04-27)A key feature of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the designation of critical habitat for threatened and endangered species. It is challenging to design critical habitat for marine species, however, due to knowledge gaps ... -
Assessing Data Requirements for Calculating Sustainable Marine Mammal Bycatch Limits
(2022-04-15)The Fish and Fish Product Import Provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act extend several domestic marine mammal management tools to foreign fisheries wishing to export their products to the United States. One of these ... -
GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES ON THE SKIN MICROBIOME OF HUMPBACK WHALES
(2016-04-21)Assessing the health state of wild marine mammals and their populations is challenging, and there is a growing need to develop reliable proxies for health determination. Climate change and other anthropogenic factors are ... -
INCORPORATING PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING DATA INTO OBIS-SEAMAP: A STRATEGY TO ENHANCE MARINE MAMMAL CONSERVATION
(2008-04-24)Over 60 species of marine mammals reside in United States waters. Assessing each marine mammal stock in the United States is a lengthy, expensive, and complicated task. The use of new technologies, such as passive acoustic ... -
Incorporating Photogrammetric Uncertainty in UAS-based Morphometric Measurements of Baleen Whales
(2021)Increasingly, drone-based photogrammetry has been used to measure size and body condition changes in marine megafauna. A broad range of platforms, sensors, and altimeters are being applied for these purposes, but there is ...
