Odontocete Movements off the Island of Kauai: Results of Satellite Tagging and Photo-Identification Efforts in January 2012

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Odontocete Studies on the Pacific Missile Range Facility in July/August 2013: Satellite-Tagging, Photo-Identification, and Passive Acoustic Monitoring

“…However, given the known movement patterns of individuals from this population from previous tagging, such exposure is likely infrequent. While individuals from the main Hawaiian Islands insular population have not been photographically documented at PMRF, satellite tagged individuals from that population have been documented moving through the range (Baird et al 2012), and thus may also occasionally be exposed to MFA sonar. At least one of the two satellite tagged rough-toothed dolphins appear to be from an island-associated population (Figure 6).…”

“…Since 2008 and prior to July/August 2013, there have been five additional boat-based field projects off Kaua'i (four in conjunction with M3R monitoring) during which satellite tags were deployed. During all of these efforts, 25 satellite tags were deployed on five different species of odontocete cetaceans off the islands of Kaua'i and Ni'ihau ( Table 1; Baird et al , 2012aBaird et al , 2012bBaird et al , 2013bBaird et al , 2013c.…”