SIMRES Acoustic Data Hydroacoustic Measurements: Marine Mammal Detections from February to December 2020 off Monarch Head and East Point, Saturna Island, BC
December 2021 — British Columbia, Canada
Client: Transport Canada Innovation Centre
An analysis of 10 months of underwater sound recordings obtained by the Saturna Island Marine Research and Education Society at two locations in Boundary Pass. JASCO’s automated marine mammal detectors for killer whales, humpback whales, and Pacific white-sided dolphins were applied to the data. This study contributes important information on the occurrence of several species in the Boundary Pass for ongoing research required to investigate factors driving the distributions of marine mammals, specifically Southern Resident killer whales.
