U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments - 2006

This report presents revised stock assessments for nine Pacific marine mammal stocks under NMFS jurisdiction: 1) San Miguel Island northern fur seal 2) Hawaiian monk seal 3) Oregon/Washington coast harbor porpoise 4) Washington Inland Waters harbor porpoise 5) California coastal bottlenose dolphin 6) Southern Resident killer whale 7) Hawaii bottlenose dolphin 8) Hawaii false killer whale and 9) Hawaii short-finned pilot whale. Information on the remaining Pacific region stocks is reprinted without revision in this report and also appears in the 2005 reports (Carretta et al. 2006).