Photographic identification of humpback and blue whales was conducted along the US West Coast in 2008 for the primary purposes of

Recent management and conservation issues have arisen concerning false killer whales in Hawaiian waters. Two demographically isolated populations have been identified,

Though fin whales from the California/Oregon/Washington stock are listed as endangered under the ESA and ‘depleted’ under the MMPA, little

Little is known about the present-day occurrence of cetaceans found in offshore waters in the Gulf of Alaska; however, whaling

Chivers et al. (2007) found Hawai‘i insular false killer whales to be distinct from other strata within the Indo-Pacific Ocean using

The existence of a small number of eastern North Pacific gray whales that spend the spring, summer and fall feeding in

This report summarizes work conducted in FY2009-FY2010 with Navy support to characterize marine mammal sounds related to passive acoustic monitoring in