U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments - 2005

This report presents revised stock assessments for five Pacific marine mammal stocks under NMFS jurisdiction: 1) the California stock of harbor seals 2) Hawaiian monk seal 3) Eastern North Pacific humpback whale 4) Hawaii false killer whale 5) Southern Resident killer whale and 6) the California/Oregon/Washington stock of short-finned pilot whales. Information on the remaining 56 Pacific region stocks is reprinted without revision in this report and also appears in the 2004 reports (Carretta et al. 2005).