Pacific Marine Assessment Partnership for Protected Species

The Pacific Marine Assessment Partnership for Protected Species (PacMAPPS) is 5-year multi-agency partnership to collect data and carry out density analyses necessary to support the regulatory and management missions of BOEM, NOAA, and the U.S. Navy. PacMAPPS facilitates the regular collection and analysis of protected species data to service the shared monitoring and assessment requirements of all three agencies throughout the Northeastern Pacific, including the California Current Ecosystem and the Hawai'ian Archipelago. In the summer and fall of 2018, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center conducted the California Current Ecosystem Survey that was a line-transect survey for coastal pelagic fisheries stocks, marine mammals (cetaceans), seabirds, and ecosystem data, spanning the entire continental shelf and slope off the U.S West Coast, from Vancouver Island, Canada, to the California-Mexico border. Additional survey coverage for marine mammals and seabirds (but not fisheries stocks) was obtained off Northern Baja California, Mexico, and in offshore areas beyond the continental shelf (out to approximately 200 nautical miles). The Hawaii portion of the PacMAPPS initiative was conducted by NOAA's Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center and included the Hawai'ian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS) that was a full EEZ-wide line-transect survey in the summer-fall of 2017, and a winter HICEAS 2020 line-transect survey focused around the main Hawai'ian Islands. The 2017 data were included in an analysis to derive spatially explicit (when possible) and uniform cetacean density estimates, and the winter survey was the first such systematic effort during winter in Hawaii.

USD: $797,000

2017-05-26 → 2021-03-31