SWFSC Oregon, California and Washington Line-Transect Experiment (Orcawale) (1604)

This 1996 line-transect survey was designed to estimate the abundance
of and to describe the distribution of dolphins, whales, and porpoises off the
west coast of the United States out to 300 nautical miles. This survey was
conducted by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center aboard NOAA Ships
David Starr Jordan and McArthur for a combined total of approximately 15,000
kilometers surveyed from mid July to early November 1996. This dataset provides
the time-date and geographical coordinates, by species/stock, of all cetaceans
detected during the survey, as well as the daily and intra-daily start and end
points of the line-transect survey.