We record the sounds produced by marine mammals and study their behaviors, locations, population sizes, and potential threats.

By Marie Hill

Part two of the day-by-day blog series from the first leg of the Vessel Survey for Abundance and Distribution of Marine Mammals and Seabirds. Follow along for all of the sightings, unique findings, and happenings aboard the project.

How survey data is collected and used to inform marine mammal population assessments in the Southeast.

U.S. fisheries are classified under the Marine Mammal Protection Act according to the level of interactions that result in incidental mortality or serious injury of marine mammals.

To dissect an extremely rare specimen, scientists wield a digital scalpel

Published Date: 2014

Published Date: 2015

Scientists ended the final leg of this 2-month long offshore research trip with quite a few marine mammal sightings and acoustics highlights.

The goal of the Pacific Offshore Cetacean Take Reduction Plan (Plan) is to reduce serious injuries and deaths of several marine mammal stocks incidental to the California/Oregon thresher shark/swordfish drift gillnet fishery.

Published Date: 2013

Evaluating the detectability of cetaceans during line-transect surveys in the southeast U.S.

In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS hereby issues a permit for a period of three years to authorize the incidental, but not intentional, taking of individuals of three stocks of marine mammals listed as threatened or endangere

Days 5-7 of the 2024 Vessel Survey for Abundance and Distribution of Marine Mammals were jam-packed full of sightings.

Pacific Ocean; Coos County, Oregon.