Humpback Whale Tagging in Support of Marine Mammal Monitoring Across Multiple Navy Training Areas in the Pacific Ocean: Preliminary Summary of Field Tagging Effort in Washington in September–October 2019

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This work is in support of marine species monitoring activities by the United States (US) Navy in its training and testing range complexes in the Pacific Ocean. Specifically, the study seeks to help delineate humpback whale Distinct Population Segments found off the US West Coast, as well as to describe their feeding-season home range, migration to the breeding areas, diving behavior, habitat use, and ecological characteristics.