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POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Seabird sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 to 2013: while fishing
Citable as data publication
Machete, M.; Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores (DOP/UAC), Portugal; (2014): POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Seabird sightings in the Azores tuna fishery from 1998 to 2013: while fishing. https://doi.org/10.14284/12
Contact: Machete, Miguel ; Catarino, Diana

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
Recorded sightings of seabirds close to the boat and/or interacting with the tuna fishing, while capturing the tunas. more

For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Birds
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Tuna fisheries, ANE, Azores, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Aves

Geographical coverage
ANE, Azores [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -51,1757; MinLat: 21,3512 - MaxLong: 12,4673; MaxLat: 85,6667 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1998 - 2013

Taxonomic coverage
Aves [WoRMS]

Parameter
Animal sightings

Contributors
University of the Azores; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), moredata creator
Machete, Miguel
Catarino, Diana
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 birds around the Azores

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-19
Information last updated: 2020-04-02
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