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EIA Database

Distribution and abundance of the harbour porpoise and other small cetaceans in the North Sea and adjacent waters-Final report.

1995
Pay-walled Book

Life

Hammond, P.S., Benke, H., Borchers D.L., Buckland S.T., Collet A., Hiede-Jørgensen, M.P., Heimlich- Boran, S., Hiby, A.R., Leopold, M.F. and Øien, N.

Sea mammals are under threat across the world. Pollution, capture in fishing nets, over-fishing of their food supplies, hunting and other factors are contributing to this...
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Keywords: Abundance, Cetaceans, Distribution, Harbour porpoise, North Sea

Global coverage of cetacean line-transect surveys: Status quo, data gaps and future challenges

2012
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

PLOS ONE

Kaschner, K., Quick, N., Jewell, R., Williams, R. et al.

Knowledge of abundance, trends and distribution of cetacean populations is needed to inform marine conservation efforts, ecosystem models and spatial planning. We compiled a geo-spatial database...
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Keywords: Abundance, Cetacea, Line transects, Models, Populations

Effects of seismic shooting on local abundance and catch rates of cod ((Gadus morhua) and haddock )(Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

1996
Pay-walled Journal Article

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Engås, A., Løkkeborg, S., Ona, E., Soldal, A. V.

To determine whether seismic exploration affected abundance or catch rates of cod (Gadus morhua) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), acoustic mapping and fishing trials with trawls and...
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Keywords: Abundance, Cod, Fishing, Haddock, Seismic survey

Fixed passive acoustic marine mammal monitoring for estimating species abundance and mitigating the effect of operations on the marine environment

2009
Open Access Report

Final Report

Moretti, D., Casey, T. and Mellinger, D.

Industries that operate in marine environments are under increasing pressure to document the effect of their activity on marine mammals and to evaluate the long-term environmental...
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Keywords: Abundance, Acoustics, Fixed, Marine mammals, Mitigation, Monitoring, Passive

Assessing the viability of density estimation for cetaceans from passive acoustic fixed sensors throughout the life cycle of an offshore E&P field devlopment

2017
Open Access Report

Final Report

Booth, C., Oedekoven, C., Gillespie, D., Macaulay, J. et al.

The objective of this JIP-funded project was to investigate how an array of fixed PAM sensors could be used to estimate cetacean density/abundance across the life...
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Keywords: Abundance, Cetaceans, Density, PAM