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whale, HI; Cuvier’s beaked whale, HI
pelagic; and Bryde’s whale, HI. The HI
pelagic false killer whale, CA/OR/WA
Mesoplodont beaked whales, and CA/
OR/WA Cuvier’s beaked whale stocks
changed from strategic to non-strategic
because their five-year mortality and
serious injury estimates for 2011–2015
are less than their PBRs. Information on
the remaining Pacific region stocks can
be found in the final 2016 reports
(Carretta et al., 2017).
Several abundance estimates for
Pacific stocks were updated in the draft
2017 reports based on a new analysis of
a 2010 pelagic line-transect survey
within the U.S. Exclusive Economic
Zone (EEZ) around the Hawaiian Islands
(Bradford et al., 2017a), a markrecapture photo-ID analysis of MHI
Insular false killer whales (Bradford et
al., 2017b), and completed 2015 field
studies of Hawaiian monk seals
(Johanos 2017). The updated estimates
of abundance for California Current
beaked whales are based on a recent
trend-based analysis (Moore and Barlow
2017).
The Hawaii pelagic false killer whale
stock changed from ‘‘strategic’’ to ‘‘nonstrategic’’ because M/SI is now below
PBR. However, the stock status is based
on information only from within the
U.S. EEZ around Hawaii because that is
where the stock’s abundance has been
assessed, even though the stock’s range
(and fishery bycatch) extends into the
adjacent high seas. Mortality and
serious injury of this stock outside the
EEZ (where there is no PBR) is not
factored into the evaluation of stock
status.
New approaches were developed to
estimate Hawaiian monk seal
abundance, both range-wide and at
individual subpopulations. In the draft
2017 SAR, the best estimate of the total
population size is 1,324 seals with a
minimum abundance estimate of 1,261
(1,272 and 1,205, respectively, in the
2016 SAR). Past reports have concluded
that Hawaiian monk seal stock
dynamics did not conform to the
underlying model for calculating PBR
because the stock was declining despite
being well below OSP. As a result, PBR
for the Hawaiian monk seal was
undetermined. The trend since 2013
does not indicate the stock has
continued to decline, so that PBR may
be determined. For the first time, the
monk seal SAR provides a valid
calculation for PBR of 4.4.

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Dated: December 14, 2017.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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