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during the life of this plan, at which review or changes to management measures must be undertaken will be developed.

Monitoring progress towards Conservation Management Plan actions
Monitoring of the plan itself will require tracking the progress of actions designed to improve management of the population and reduce threats. To facilitate this, a midterm review of the plan will be conducted. This review will use the measures of success for each action area to identify which actions have been completed, which are underway, which are on track for completion by 2016 and which actions have not been sufficiently progressed.

Data management
Data collected on southern right whales in Australia to date falls into the following categories:

    * Sightings data

    * Photo-identification data

    * Georeferenced broad-scale (range wide) and fine-scale (within aggregations) spatial distribution data

    * Genetic samples

    * Behavioural data

    * Stranding, entanglement and injury data

    * Skeletal material and other tissue collections

    * Satellite tag data.

Currently data are archived principally by individual researchers and/or research organisations and government agencies. Metadata for southern right whale datasets are listed in the Report of the National Southern Right Whale Workshop, Hobart 2009. New data collection is summarised annually in Australia's Progress Report to the IWC.

Linkages between datasets are improving. A centralised database for stranding and sightings data is being built by the AMMC. An Australasian Right Whale Photo-Identification Catalogue is currently being developed. The catalogue's purpose is to integrate southern right whale photo-identification collections and related data in Australia and New Zealand so that data are archived and accessible from one web-based portal.

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