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

Strategic stocks Non-strategic stocks 

• 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. 

Carretta, J.V., K.A. Forney, E.M. Oleson, D.W. 

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 

amendments to the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act, 23 p. 

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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