Progress report on Passive Acoustic Monitoring of the Eastern South Pacific southern right whales, a key to improve Conservation Management Plan outputs: May 2018-April 2019
Barbara Galletti Vernazzani, Susannah Buchan, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Danielle Cholewiak, Elisa Goya and Sue Moore
Little is known about the Critically Endangered Eastern South Pacific southern right whale. In 2012, the IWC adopted a Conservation Management Plan for this population and since 2016 the Scientific Committee has supported a Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) project to facilitate the identification of potential breeding areas along the coast of Chile and Peru. First deployment successfully occurred in July 2018 and planning to deploy the second equipment is underway. Further details on advances of the PAM project from May 2018 to April 2019 are reported here.