CRD 08-07

Table 1.  Sighting events, individual right whales, and pseudo-DAM events, by subarea, within the Northeast foraging region (Figure 7), based on the NARWC dataset for the years 1970-2005.

Subarea

Sighting events1

Individual whales sighted2

Pseudo-DAM events

Cape Cod Bay

4,934

7,498

543

Great South Channel

2,209

5,753

344

Georges Bank Northern Edge

251

408

32

Western Gulf of Maine

1,037

1,749

153

Wilkinson Basin

523

1,058

104

Jordan Basin

111

236

21

Entire 3 Foraging Region

9,354

17,291

1,255

Outside Foraging Region

258

465

37

Entire Analysis Area

9,612

17,756

1,292

1 Includes sighting events not occurring as parts of pseudo-DAMS.
2 Includes whales from sighting events not occurring as parts of pseudo-DAMS.
3 Sum of first five rows < Total for Foraging Region.

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