Humpback Whale Tagging in Support of Marine Mammal Monitoring Across Multiple Navy Training Areas in the Pacific Ocean: Preliminary Summary of Field Tagging Effort off the US W

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Through the use of satellite telemetry and genetic analyses, this project will provide greater detail on which subpopulations of humpback whales use the Navy activity areas in the North Pacific Ocean. Satellite tag deployments will occur off California and Oregon/Washington (summer/fall 2017) and Hawaii (winter/spring 2018) to track the migrations of humpback whales throughout the Pacific basin for multiple weeks to multiple months after deployment.