CONTENTS Acknowledgments Executive Summary Introduction Stock Assessments for 2005 Appendices Erratum List of Stock Assessments for All Years NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-194
U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments -- 2005
Gordon T. Waring1, Elizabeth Josephson 1, Carol P. Fairfield2, and Katherine Maze-Foley3, Editors, with contributions from (listed alphabetically): Dana Beldon1, Timothy V.N. Cole1, Lance P. Garrison2, Keith D. Mullin3, Christopher Orphanides1, Richard M. Pace1, Debra L. Palka1, Marjorie C. Rossman1, and Fredrick W. Wenzel1
1National Marine Fisheries Serv., 166 Water St., Woods Hole, MA 02543
2National Marine Fisheries Serv., 75 Virginia Beach Dr., Miami, FL 33149
3National Marine Fisheries Serv., 3209 Frederic St., Pascagoula, MS 39567Web version posted April 10, 2006
Citation: Waring GT, Josephson E, Fairfield CP, Maze-Foley K, editors. 2006. U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments -- 2005. NOAA Tech Memo 194;Information Quality Act Compliance: In accordance with section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center completed both technical and policy reviews for this report. These predissemination reviews are on file at the NEFSC Editorial Office.
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ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION TABLE 1. A summary of Atlantic marine mammal stock assessment reports for stocks of marine mammals under NMFS authority that occupy waters under USA jurisdiction.
STOCK ASSESSMENTS FOR 2005
- NORTHERN RIGHT WHALE (Eubalaena glacialis): Western Atlantic Stock
- HUMPBACK WHALE (Megaptera novaeangliae): Gulf of Maine Stock
- FIN WHALE (Balaenoptera physalus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- SEI WHALE (Balaenoptera borealis): Nova Scotia Stock
- MINKE WHALE (Balaenoptera acutorostrata): Canadian East Coast Stock
- SPERM WHALE (Physeter macrocephalus): North Atlantic Stock
- DWARF SPERM WHALE (Kogia sima): Western North Atlantic Stock
- PYGMY SPERM WHALE (Kogia breviceps): Western North Atlantic Stock
- PYGMY KILLER WHALE (Feresa attenutta): Western North Atlantic Stock
- CUVIER'S BEAKED WHALE (Ziphius cavirostris): Western North Atlantic Stock
- MESOPLODON BEAKED WHALES (Mesoplodon spp.): Western North Atlantic Stock
- MELON-HEADED WHALE (Peponocephala electra): Western North Atlantic Stock
- RISSO'S DOLPHIN (Grampus griseus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- LONG-FINNED PILOT WHALE (Globicephala melas): Western North Atlantic Stock
- SHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALE (Globicephala macrorhynchus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- WHITE-SIDED DOLPHIN (Lagenorhynchus acutus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN (Lagenorhynchus albirostris): Western North Atlantic Stock
- COMMON DOLPHIN (Delphinus delphis): Western North Atlantic Stock
- ATLANTIC SPOTTED DOLPHIN (Stenella frontalis): Western North Atlantic Stock
- PANTROPICAL SPOTTED DOLPHIN (Stenella attenuata): Western North Atlantic Stock
- STRIPED DOLPHIN (Stenella coeruleoalba): Western North Atlantic Stock
- FRASER'S DOLPHIN (Lagenodelphis hosei): Western North Atlantic Stock
- CLYMENE DOLPHIN (Stenella clymene): Western North Atlantic Stock
- SPINNER DOLPHIN (Stenella longirostris): Western North Atlantic Stock
- BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus): Western North Atlantic Offshore Stock
- BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus): Western North Atlantic Coastal Morphotype Stocks
- HARBOR PORPOISE (Phocoena phocoena): Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy Stock
- HARBOR SEAL (Phoca vitulina): Western North Atlantic Stock
- GRAY SEAL (Halichoerus grypus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- HARP SEAL (Pagophilus groenlandicus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- HOODED SEAL (Cystophora cristata): Western North Atlantic Stock
- SPERM WHALE (Physeter macrocephalus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- BRYDE'S WHALE (Balaenoptera edeni): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- CUVIER'S BEAKED WHALE (Ziphius cavirostris): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- BLAINVILLE’S BEAKED WHALE (Mesoplodon densirostris): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- GERVAIS' BEAKED WHALE (Mesoplodon europaeus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf Stock
- BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Stocks
- BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Oceanic Stock
- BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (Tursiops truncatus): Gulf of Mexico Bay, Sound, and Estuarine Stocks
- ATLANTIC SPOTTED DOLPHIN (Stenella frontalis): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- PANTROPICAL SPOTTED DOLPHIN (Stenella attenuata): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- STRIPED DOLPHIN (Stenella coeruleoalba): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- SPINNER DOLPHIN (Stenella longirostris): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- ROUGH-TOOTHED DOLPHIN (Steno bredanensis): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- CLYMENE DOLPHIN (Stenella clymene): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- FRASER'S DOLPHIN (Lagenodelphis hosei): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- KILLER WHALE (Orcinus orca): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- FALSE KILLER WHALE (Pseudorca crassidens): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- PYGMY KILLER WHALE (Feresa attenuata): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- DWARF SPERM WHALE (Kogia sima): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- PYGMY SPERM WHALE (Kogia breviceps): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- MELON-HEADED WHALE (Peponocephala electra): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- RISSO'S DOLPHIN (Grampus griseus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
- SHORT-FINNED PILOT WHALE (Globicephala macrorhynchus): Northern Gulf of Mexico Stock
APPENDICESAPPENDIX I. Estimated serious injury and mortality (SI&M) of Western North Atlantic marine mammals listed by U.S. observed fisheries for 1999-2003 APPENDIX II. Summary of the confirmed human-caused mortality and serious injury ("SI") events involving baleen whales along the Gulf of Mexico coast, U.S. East coast and adjacent Canadian Maritimes, 1999 - 2003, with number of events attributed to entanglements or vessel collisions by year. APPENDIX III. Fisheries Descriptions
APPENDIX IV.
Marine Mammal stock assessment reports not updated in 2005:
- BLUE WHALE (Balaenoptera musculus): Western North Atlantic Stock
- KILLER WHALE (Orcinus orca): Western North Atlantic Stock
- NORTHERN BOTTLENOSE WHALE (Hyperoodon ampullatus): Western North Atlantic Stock
APPENDIX V.
- WEST INDIAN MANATEE (Trichechus manatus latirostris): Florida stock
- WEST INDIAN MANATEE ((Trichechus manatus manatus): Antillean Stock
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