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Abstract

The MMPA requires NMFS and USFWS to review stock assessment reports on marine mammal species annually for strategic stocks of marine mammals and at least every three years for stocks of marine mammals determined to be non-strategic. in consultation with regional Scientific Review Groups (SRGs). The SRGs are a broad representation of marine mammal and fishery scientists and members of the commercial fishing industry mandated to review the marine mammal stock assessments and provide advice to the NOAA Assistant Administrator for fisheries. The reports are then made available on the Federal Register for public review and comment before final publication.

Following enactment of the 1994 amendments, the NMFS and USFWS held a series of workshops to develop guidelines for preparing the SARs. The first set of stock assessments for the Atlantic Coast (including the Gulf of Mexico) were published in July 1995 in the NOAA Technical Memorandum series (Blaylock et al. 1995). In April 1996, NMFS held a workshop to review proposed additions and revisions to the guidelines for preparing SARs (Wade and Angliss 1997). Guidelines developed at these and subsequent workshops were followed in preparing the SARs.

In 1997 and 2004 SARs were not produced.

Publication Information

Publication Type
Technical Memorandum

Professional Paper Series Number
NMFS-NE-258

Series
US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments

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Controlled Theme Keywords

BALEEN WHALES, CETACEANS, SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS, TOOTHED WHALES

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Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
(508)495-2000

Item Identification

Title: U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal stock assessments, 2011
Short Name: 2011 U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal SAR
Status: Completed
Abstract:

The MMPA requires NMFS and USFWS to review stock assessment reports on marine mammal species annually for strategic stocks of marine mammals and at least every three years for stocks of marine mammals determined to be non-strategic. in consultation with regional Scientific Review Groups (SRGs). The SRGs are a broad representation of marine mammal and fishery scientists and members of the commercial fishing industry mandated to review the marine mammal stock assessments and provide advice to the NOAA Assistant Administrator for fisheries. The reports are then made available on the Federal Register for public review and comment before final publication.

Following enactment of the 1994 amendments, the NMFS and USFWS held a series of workshops to develop guidelines for preparing the SARs. The first set of stock assessments for the Atlantic Coast (including the Gulf of Mexico) were published in July 1995 in the NOAA Technical Memorandum series (Blaylock et al. 1995). In April 1996, NMFS held a workshop to review proposed additions and revisions to the guidelines for preparing SARs (Wade and Angliss 1997). Guidelines developed at these and subsequent workshops were followed in preparing the SARs.

In 1997 and 2004 SARs were not produced.

Purpose:

To comply with the MMPA by providing stock assessments of marine mammals at an appropriate time period .

Each report includes:

Description of the stock's geographic range.

Minimum population estimate.

Current population trends.

Current and maximum net productivity rates.

Potential Biological Removal levels.

Status of the stock.

Estimates of annual human-caused mortality and serious injury by source.

Descriptions of other factors that may be causing a decline or impeding the recovery of strategic stocks.

Notes:

How the Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports Are Developed

Data collection, analysis, and interpretation are conducted through marine mammal research programs at each of our Fisheries Science Centers and by other researchers.

The MMPA provides broad narrative descriptions of what has to be included in stock assessment reports. For example, the reports require a "minimum population estimate" which means we have "reasonable" assurance there are at least the estimated number in the population

Other Citation Details:

TY -

A2 - Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)

AB - "Under the 1994 amendments of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) were required to generate stock assessment reports (SARs) for all marine mammal stocks in waters within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The MMPA requires NMFS and USFWS to review these reports annually for strategic stocks of marine mammals and at least every 3 years for stocks determined to be non-strategic. In subsequent annual reports, including this current 2011 edition, updated reports are indicated by the corresponding year date-stamp at the top right corner of the report and are included in the main body of the document. Stock assessments not updated in the current year are listed in an appendix. Also included in this report as appendices are: 1) a summary of serious injury/mortality estimates of marine mammals in observed U.S. fisheries (Appendix I), 2) a summary of NMFS records of large whale/human interactions examined for this assessment (Appendix II), 3) detailed fisheries information (Appendix III), 4) summary tables of abundance estimates generated over recent years and the surveys from which they are derived (Appendix IV), and 5) the the USFWS West Indian manatee assessments (Appendix VI). Table 1 contains a summary, by species, of the information included in the stock assessments, and also indicates those that have been revised since the 2010 publication. Most of the changes incorporate new information into sections on population size and/or mortality estimates. A total of 23 of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico stock assessment reports were revised for 2011. In addition to this, three of the Gulf of Mexico bay, sound and estuary stocks of bottlenose dolphins - Barataria Bay, St. Joseph Bay, and Choctawhatchee Bay were given their own new reports

(all of strategic status). Five new Caribbean stock reports were added this year -- bottlenose dolphin, Cuvier's beaked whale, short-finned pilot whale, spinner dolphin and Atlantic spotted dolphin. The revised and new SARs include 18 strategic and 12 non-strategic stocks. This report was prepared by staff of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC). NMFS staff presented the reports at the February 2011 meeting of the Atlantic Scientific Review Group (ASRG), and subsequent revisions were based on their contributions and constructive criticism. This is a working document and individual stock assessment reports will be updated as new information becomes available and as changes to marine mammal stocks and fisheries occur. The authors solicit any new information or comments which would improve future stock assessment reports"--Executive summary.

AB - Gordon T. Waring, Elizabeth Josephson, Katherine Maze-Foley, and Patricia E. Rosel, editors.

AB - "Web version posted May 18, 2012"--Document's home page: http://nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/tm/tm221/index.html.

AB - Title from title screen (viewed on May 23, 2012).

AB - "April 2012."

AB - Mode of access: World Wide Web.

AB - System requirements: Internet browser; Adobe Acrobat Reader.

AB - Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-202).

AU - Waring, Gordon T.

AU - Josephson, Elizabeth

AU - Maze-Foley, Katherine

AU - Rosel, Patricia E.

AN - noaa:4135

KW - Estimates

KW - Fish stock assessment

KW - Marine mammal populations

KW - Marine mammals

KW - Marine mammals

KW - Marine mammal populations

KW - Estimates

KW - Fish stock assessment

PY - 2012

T3 - NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-NE ; 221

TI - U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal stock assessments 2011

M3 - Technical Memorandum

UR - https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/4135

ER -

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHALES
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Service Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS
UNCONTROLLED
NOAA Institutional Repository 4135
None abundance
None assessment
None Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata
None Balaenoptera borealis borealis
None Balaenoptera edeni
None Balaenoptera physalus
None BLAINVILLE’S BEAKED WHALE
None BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN
None BRYDE'S WHALE
None Canadian East Coast Stock
None CLYMENE DOLPHIN
None COMMON DOLPHIN
None CUVIER'S BEAKED WHALE
None Delphinus delphis delphis
None distribution
None DWARF SPERM WHALE
None Eubalaena glacialis
None FALSE KILLER WHALE
None Feresa attenuata
None FIN WHALE
None FRASER'S DOLPHIN
None GERVAIS' BEAKED WHALE
None Globicephala macrorhynchus
None Grampus griseus
None GRAY SEAL
None Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy Stock
None Halichoerus grypus atlantica
None HARBOR PORPOISE
None HARBOR SEAL
None human caused mortality
None KILLER WHALE
None Kogia breviceps
None Kogia sima
None Lagenodelphis hosei
None MELON-HEADED WHALE
None Mesoplodon densirostris
None Mesoplodon europaeus
None MINKE WHALE
None NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE
None Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
None Northern North Carolina Estuarine System Stock
None Nova Scotia Stock
None Orcinus orca
None PANTROPICAL SPOTTED DOLPHIN
None Peponocephala electra
None Phoca vitulina vitulina
None Phocoena phocoena phocoena
None Physeter macrocephalus
None Pseudorca crassidens
None PYGMY KILLER WHALE
None PYGMY SPERM WHALE
None RISSO'S DOLPHIN
None ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN
None SEI WHALE
None SHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALE
None Southern North Carolina Estuarine System Stock
None SPERM WHALE
None SPINNER DOLPHIN
None Stenella attenuata attenuat
None Stenella clymene
None Stenella coeruleoalba
None Stenella longirostris longirostris
None Steno bredanensis
None STRIPED DOLPHIN
None Tursiops truncatus truncatus
None Western Atlantic Stock
None Western North Atlantic Northern Migratory Coastal Stock
None Western North Atlantic Southern Migratory Coastal Stock
None Western North Atlantic Stock
None Ziphius cavirostris

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO

Publication Information

Publication Type: Technical Memorandum
Technical Memo Date: 2013-03-01
Professional Paper Series Number: NMFS-NE-258
Series Name: US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments

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Author

CC ID: 1086717
Date Effective From: 2012
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Contact (Person): Rosel, Patricia
Address: 646 Cajundome Blvd
Lafayette, LA 70506-4291
Email Address: patricia.rosel@noaa.gov
Phone: 337-291-2123
Fax: 337-291-2106

Author

CC ID: 1086719
Date Effective From: 2012
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Contact (Person): Foley, Kathy
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
Email Address: kathy.foley@noaa.gov
Phone: (513) 283-0228

Author

CC ID: 1086718
Date Effective From: 2012
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Contact (Person): Josephson, Elizabeth
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026
USA
Email Address: elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov
Phone: 508-495-2362

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086723
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Soldevilla, Melissa
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
USA
Email Address: melissa.soldevilla@noaa.gov
Phone: 305-361-4238

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086724
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Mullin, Keith D
Address: 3209 Frederic St.
Pascagoula, MS 39568
Email Address: keith.d.mullin@noaa.gov
Phone: 228-549-1632
Fax: 228-769-9200

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086725
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Litz, Jenny
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33139
Email Address: Jenny.Litz@noaa.gov
Phone: 305-361-4224
Fax: 305-365-4102

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086726
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Chavez, Samuel
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: samuel.chavez@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2199

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086722
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Cole, Timothy
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026
USA
Email Address: tim.cole@noaa.gov
Phone: 508-495-2087
Fax: 508-495-2258

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086721
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Byrd, Barbie
Email Address: barbie.byrd@ncdenr.gov
Phone: 252-726-7021

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086720
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Rappucci, Gina
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
Email Address: gina.rappucci@noaa.gov
Phone: (305) 361-4283

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086727
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Pace, Richard
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: richard.pace@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2253
Fax: (508) 495-2066

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086735
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Wenzel, Frederick W
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: frederick.wenzel@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2252

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086728
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Hatch, Joshua M
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: joshua.hatch@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2084
Business Hours: , Michael

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086729
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Henry, Allison C
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: allison.henry@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2048
Fax: (508) 495-2033

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086730
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Horstman, Stacey
Address: 263 13th Avenue South
St Petersburg, FL 33701
Email Address: stacey.horstman@noaa.gov
Phone: (727) 824-5312
Fax: (727) 824-5309

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086731
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Lyssikatos, Marjorie C
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: marjorie.lyssikatos@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2111
Fax: (508) 495-2032

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086732
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Orphanides, Chris
Address: 28 Tarzwell Drive
Narragansett,, RI 02882
Email Address: chris.orphanides@noaa.gov
Phone: (401) 782-3283
Fax: (401) 782-3201

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086733
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Palka, Debra L
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Email Address: debra.palka@noaa.gov
Phone: (508) 495-2387
Fax: (508) 495-2258

Collaborator

CC ID: 1086734
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Powell, Jessica
Address: 263 13th Avenue South
St Petersburg, FL 33701
Email Address: jessica.powell@noaa.gov
Phone: (727) 824-5312
Mobile: (618) 530-6346

Distributor

CC ID: 1086736
Date Effective From: 2012
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026
USA
Phone: (508)495-2000
URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/northeast-fisheries-science-center
Business Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday

Publisher

CC ID: 1086737
Date Effective From: 2012
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Contact (Organization): Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC)
Address: 166 Water Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026
USA
Phone: (508)495-2000
URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/northeast-fisheries-science-center
Business Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday

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