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Incidental sightings of marine mammals

Data on incidental sightings of cetaceans reported to the Institute of Marine Research by letter or telephone, as well as information from newspapers, have been collected since 1967. From the late 1970s, data have also been obtained from research vessels, coast guard vessels, some fishing vessels and inspectors. These reports contain basic information on date, position and species, but also additional information such as group sizes. These sightings are not useful for assessing abundance, but might reveal distributional aspects. Most of the reports come from the northern areas (Barents Sea); this is clearly related to the distribution of the activities which form the basis for this kind of reporting.

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Publication Date
2021-12-02
Title

Incidental sightings of marine mammals

Abstract

Data on incidental sightings of cetaceans reported to the Institute of Marine Research by letter or telephone, as well as information from newspapers, have been collected since 1967. From the late 1970s, data have also been obtained from research vessels, coast guard vessels, some fishing vessels and inspectors. These reports contain basic information on date, position and species, but also additional information such as group sizes. These sightings are not useful for assessing abundance, but might reveal distributional aspects. Most of the reports come from the northern areas (Barents Sea); this is clearly related to the distribution of the activities which form the basis for this kind of reporting.

Dataset Language

en

 
Dataset Creator
  Institute of Marine Research; Marine Mammals Research Group

Metadata Provider
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BE

https://www.vliz.be
Associated Party

pointOfContact

  Institute of Marine Research - Nils Øien

Dataset Contact
  Institute of Marine Research - Siri Hartvedt

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

A, North Atlantic

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

ANE, Denmark Strait

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

ANE, Greenland Sea

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

ANE, North Sea

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

ANE, Norwegian Sea

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

ANW, Davis Strait

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

-71.47

East Bounding Coordinate

69.32

North Bounding Coordinate

84.05

South Bounding Coordinate

23.78

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

PNE, Barents Sea

Temporal Coverage

Single Date Time

1980-01-01

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1837

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

class

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Additional Metadata

describes

Extra metadata added by VLIZ to add parameter, platform info, as well as GBIF fields

Metadata

parameter

Animal sightings

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-12-02T15:40:01+01:00

Hierarchy Level

dataset

Citation

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/portal/index.php?dasid=5728

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/toolbox/en/download/occurrence/dataset/5728

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://obis.org/dataset/dd335e79-f580-44a1-bedc-1476437eb73e

Physical

Object Name

Metadata

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
http://www.eurobis.org//imis?dasid=5728