Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS) III
Description
The third iteration of the Small Cetaceans in the European Atlantic and North Sea (SCANS-III) project would also broaden the survey area to European Atlantic shelf waters. The survey was supported by Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK, with an independent project supported by Ireland, ObSERVE, is conducting surveys in Irish waters during the period 2015-2017.
SCANS-III is a large-scale ship and aerial survey to study the distribution and abundance of cetaceans in European Atlantic waters. The survey was conducted predominantly during July 2016, when three ships and seven aircraft surveyed along predetermined transects for whales, dolphins and porpoises. A primary aim of SCANS-III was to provide robust large-scale estimates of cetacean abundance, essential to assessments of Favourable Conservation Status of species under the Habitats Directive and to assessments of Good Environmental Status (GES) under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
Survey methods are detailed in SCANS III report and outputs available online: https://scans3.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/resources/
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Tags
- joint-cetacean-data-programme
- cetacean
- scans