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POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Marine mammal sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 on: during navigation or search mode
Citable as data publication
Machete, M.; Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores (DOP/UAC), Portugal; (2016): POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Marine mammal sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 on: during navigation or search mode. https://doi.org/10.14284/19
Contact: Catarino, Diana ; Machete, Miguel
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description
Sightings of cetaceans were recorded daily, at 6 different fixed periods (snap shots), when the boat was in navigation or search mode. Sightings were recorded at distances shorter and larger than 300 meters from the boat. more

For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Tuna fisheries, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Azores, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Cetacea
Geographical coverage
ANE, Azores [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -39,95; MinLat: 18,25 - MaxLong: 30; MaxLat: 49,2 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1998 - 2013
Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Parameter
Animal sightings
Contributors
University of the Azores; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), more, data creator
Machete, Miguel
Catarino, Diana
Silva, Mónica
Prieto, Rui
Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), data creator
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
POPA: Azores Fisheries Observation Programme: POPA cetacean, seabird, and sea turtle sightings in the Azores area
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
Gridded abundance maps of marine mammals around the Azores
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2015-02-13
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-16
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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