Common Bottlenose Dolphin Photographic Identification Mark-Recapture Surveys Collected from Small Boats in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (NorTex Catalog) from to 2014-03-29 to 2019-06-28

Original provider:
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Dataset credits:
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Errol Ronje, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Abstract:
As part of the marine mammal stock assessment program of the National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), photographic identification capture mark
recapture data were collected to estimate the abundance of common
bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) by the Southeast Fisheries
Science Center, Pascagoula, Mississippi Laboratory, and the Texas Marine
Mammal Stranding Network from 2014-03-29 to 2019-06-28. This dataset
contains spatiotemporal data from the "NorTex" catalog, including visual observations and dorsal fin images for individual dolphins encountered in the coastal and estuarine waters of
north Texas and western Louisiana including East Matagorda Bay, West
Bay, Galveston Bay, and Sabine Lake.