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TABLE 3—LIST OF MARINE MAMMAL STOCKS IN THE PACIFIC REGION REVISED IN 2020—Continued
Strategic stocks

Non-strategic stocks
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Cuvier’s beaked whale, Hawaii Pelagic.*
Longman’s beaked whale, Hawaii.*
Pygmy sperm whale, Hawaii.*
Dwarf sperm whale, Hawaii.
Bryde’s whale, Hawaii.*
Minke whale, Hawaii.*

* Includes updated abundance estimates.

Updated Abundance Estimates for
Hawaiian Stocks
The majority of Hawaii reports
contain new abundance estimates for all
Hawaiian Islands Cetacean Assessment
Survey (HICEAS) years (2002, 2010, and
2017) using a consistent analysis
approach across years. Some stocks use
model-based estimates of abundance
when available.
False Killer Whale, All Pacific Stocks
The stock range and boundaries of the
three Hawaiian stocks of false killer
whales were recently reevaluated, given
significant new information on the
occurrence and movements of each
stock in Bradford et al. (2015), and
further revised for the pelagic stock in
Bradford et al. (2020). A new modelbased methodology, taking into account
the removal of the inner stock boundary
for the pelagic stock, was used to
estimate abundance. This resulted in
new abundance, NMIN, and PBR
estimates for the Hawaii EEZ and
broader central Pacific study area.
Common Bottlenose Dolphin-Hawaii
Pelagic
There were no sightings of bottlenose
dolphins during systematic survey effort
in 2017, and therefore design-based
estimates are not available. This results
in an undetermined abundance estimate
(previously 21,815) and
correspondingly, the PBR for this
population is now undetermined
(previously 140).
References
Bradford, A.L., E.M. Oleson, R.W. Baird, C.H.
Boggs, K.A. Forney, and N.C. Young.
2015. Revised stock boundaries for false
killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in
Hawaiian waters. U.S. Department of
Commerce, NOAA Technical
Memorandum. NOAA–TM–NMFS–
PIFSC–47, 29 p.
Bradford, A.L., E.A. Becker, E.M. Oleson,
K.A. Forney, J.E. Moore, and J. Barlow.
2020. Abundance estimates of false killer
whales in Hawaiian waters and the
broader central Pacific. U.S. Department
of Commerce, NOAA Technical
Memorandum NOAA–TM–NMFS–
PIFSC–104, 78 p.
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Weller, A.R. Lang, J. Baker, M.M. Muto,
B. Hanson, A.J. Orr, H. Huber, M.S.
Lowry, J. Barlow, J.E. Moore, D. Lynch,
L. Carswell, and R.L. Brownell Jr. 2020.
U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock
assessments: 2019. U.S. Department of
Commerce, NOAA Technical
Memorandum NMFS–SWFSC–629, 385
p.
DWH MMIQT. 2015. Models and analyses for
the quantification of injury to Gulf of
Mexico cetaceans from the Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill, MM_TR.01_
Schwacke_Quantification.of.Injury.to.
GOM.Cetaceans. Southeast Fisheries
Science Center Reference Document
PRBD–2020–02.
Garrison, L.P., J. Ortega-Ortiz, and G.
Rappucci. 2020. Abundance of marine
mammals in the waters of the U.S. Gulf
of Mexico in the summer of 2017 and
2018. Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Reference Document PRBD–2020–07, 55
p.
Garrison, L.P., K. Barry, and W. Hoggard.
2017. The abundance of coastal
morphotype bottlenose dolphins on the
U.S. east coast: 2002–2016. Southeast
Fisheries Science Center Reference
Document PRBD–2017–01, 43 p.
Hayes, S.A., E. Josephson, K. Maze-Foley,
and P.E. Rosel, Editors. 2020. U.S.
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine
mammal stock assessments—2019. U.S.
Department of Commerce, NOAA
Technical Memorandum NMFS–NE–264,
477 p.
Laake, J.L. and D.L. Borchers. 2004. Methods
for incomplete detection at distance zero,
In: Advanced distance sampling, edited
by S.T. Buckland, D.R. Andersen, K.P.
Burnham, J.L. Laake, and L. Thomas, p.
108–189, Oxford University Press, New
York.
Muto, M.M., V.T. Helker, B.J. Delean, R.P.
Angliss, P.L. Boveng, J.M. Breiwick, B.M.
Brost, M.F. Cameron, P.J. Clapham, S.P.
Dahle, M.E. Dahlheim, B.S. Fadely, M.C.
Ferguson, L.W. Fritz, R.C. Hobbs, Y.V.
Ivashchenko, A.S. Kennedy, J.M.
London, S.A. Mizroch, R.R. Ream, E.L.
Richmond, K.E.W. Shelden, K.L.
Sweeney, R.G. Towell, P.R. Wade, J.M.
Waite, and A.N. Zerbini. 2020. Alaska
marine mammal stock assessments,
2019. U.S. Department of Commerce,
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS–
AFSC–404, 395 p.
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
2016. Guidelines for preparing stock
assessment reports pursuant to the 1994
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Pace, R.M., III, P.J. Corkeron, and S.D. Kraus.
2017. State-space mark-recapture
estimates reveal a recent decline in
abundance of North Atlantic right
whales. Ecol. and Evol. 7:8730–8741.
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3406.
Pace, R.M., III, R. Williams, A.R. Knowlton,
H.M. Pettis, and S.D. Kraus. Submitted.
Cryptic mortality of North Atlantic right
whales.
Robbins, J. and R.M. Pace, III. 2018. Trends
in abundance of North Atlantic
humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine.
EE133F–17–SE–1320 Task I Contract
Report. Northeast Fisheries Science
Center, Woods Hole, MA.
Wade, P.R., C. Boyd, K.E.W. Shelden, and
C.L. Sims. 2019. Chapter 2: Group size
estimates and revised abundance
estimates and trend for the Cook Inlet
beluga population. In K.E.W. Shelden
and P.R. Wade (eds.), Aerial surveys,
distribution, abundance, and trend of
belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in Cook
Inlet, Alaska, June 2018. AFSC Processed
Rep. 2019–09, 93 p. Alaska Fisheries
Science Center, Seattle, WA.
Dated: November 30, 2020.
Christopher Wayne Oliver,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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