CRD 01-06

Table 6. Whale density characteristics of 13 events characterized from historic Cape Cod Bay and Stellwagen Bank whale watch data during April-October 1980-96. Note that no density estimate exists if all whale sightings recorded during the first day were assigned the same coordinates.

Event
No.
First-day
Radius (nm)
First-day Density
(whales/100 nm2) 1
No. First-day 
Whales
Buffer Total No. Whale 
Sightings
1 0 4 10.1 7
2 1.20 132.0 6 16.0 70
3 3.67 35.4 15 11.7 66
4 4.79 4.16 3 10.1 46
5 10.4 6.75 23 5.9 34
6 0.76 329.0 6 0.90 16
7 0.78 207.0 4 15.5 9
8 0 3 9.2 6
9 3.22 21.4 7 5.2 9
10 0 7 15.1 81
11 0.71 251.0 4 9.3 6
12 8.39 12.2 27 7.9 73
13 2.71 598.0 138 15.8 284

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