https://doi.org/10.82144/f19386f8 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1030 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/1ffd6c47-a814-43e6-b4d5-7eabf86c6a6f https://obis.org/dataset/c4a81301-45ad-44df-84fc-e1fe586873ca Oriol Giralt Associació Cetàcea Primary contact recerca@associaciocetacea.org OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Oriol Giralt Associació Cetàcea Primary contact recerca@associaciocetacea.org owner ACCOBAMS and WDCS The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) http://www.accobams.org/ originator 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Associació Cetàcea Abstract: We currently are conducting a research project on cetaceans. The study is foccussed on the fin whale in the Mediterranean Sea, but we also see other cetaceans such as striped dolphin or bottlenose dolphin. One of the goals of our organization is to contribute to the conservation of the marine life. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Marine Biology Visual sighting Vessels Sightings N/A The sightings have been made during the Fin Whale Project, a study approved by the Biodiversity and Protection of Animals division of the Departament of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Food and the Environment of the Catalan Government. With this project we expect to improve our knowledge about the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Mediterranean Sea. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1030 Oceans 1.6723333 1.9840833 41.2051667 40.9811 2013-03-23 2013-09-28 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Balaenoptera physalus Fin whale species Stenella coeruleoalba Striped dolphin species Tursiops truncatus Common bottlenose dolphin The Mediterranean fin whale population is rather small and its distribution uncertain for the most part of the year. The main goal of the project is to collect geographical, environmental, biological, behavioral and population data of every sighting. We also want to take photographs of every whale detected. notPlanned Oriol Giralt Associació Cetàcea Primary contact recerca@associaciocetacea.org NA NA NA Oriol Giralt owner NA zd_1030 2025-07-31T16:29:41-04:00 dataset Giralt, O. 2013. Cetacean sightings along the catalan coast. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/f19386f8. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1030 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1030/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1030/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_1030 zd_1030 Giralt, O., Ramallo, C., Miller, V., Valls, M., Fernandez, M., Suetta, D., Ruiz, B. & Valiente, O. 2013. Cetacean sightings along the Catalan coast made during surveys of the Associació Cetàcea 2013.