Draft Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports (SARs)

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Reopened Comment Period for 10 Stocks

NMFS has revised abundance estimates and corrected some bycatch estimates for 10 stocks in the Atlantic region (78 FR 3399).

The revised draft 2012 SARs [pdf] for the following 10 stocks is open for public comment through 04/16/2013:

• Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris) - Western North Atlantic Stock
• Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) - Western North Atlantic Stock
• Gervais’ Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) - Western North Atlantic Stock
• Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) - Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy Stock
• Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) - Canadian East Coast Stock
• Risso's Dolphin (Grampus griseus) - Western North Atlantic Stock
• Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis) - Nova Scotia Stock
• Sowerby’s Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon bidens) - Western North Atlantic Stock
• Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) - North Atlantic Stock
• White‐Sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) - Western North Atlantic Stock

Draft Reports

The original 2012 draft reports published on August 7, 2012 (77 FR 47043), and public comment on these reports closed on November 5, 2012. The final 2012 reports--not including the revised 10 noted above--were published on March 29, 2013.

• Draft 2012 Alaska [pdf]
• Draft 2012 Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean (all) [pdf]*
  • Draft 2012 Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean Appendices [pdf]
• Draft 2012 Pacific [pdf]

* NOTE: Ten reports contained in this version of the draft 2012 Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean SARs have been revised (78 FR 3399), as listed above.

Updated: March 29, 2013