New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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CETACEANS SIGHTED OFF THE WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND, SUMMER 1970 (NOTE)

B. F. Webb

Fisheries Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Records are presented of sightings of 6 cetacean species (15 common dolphins, Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, over 5000 dusky dolphins, Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray), approximately 74 bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu), 8 sperm whales, Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 6 southern humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae lalandi (Fischer), and 36 southern pilot whales. Globi-cephala melaena edwardii (Smith)) from m.v. Lloret Lopez 11 between 8 January and 2 April 1970. A large school of dusky dolphins was observed south of Solander Island. Monthly water temperatures in the summer of 1970 were high and in January ranged from 15.4°c (9.2 km west of Fiordland) and 21.6°c (55 km west of Cape Farewell), in February from 16.2°c (Fiordland) and 20.4°c (Cape Farewell), and in March from 16.0°c (Fiordland) and 20.5°c (Cape Farewell).

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7 (1 & 2) : 179-82
(Received for publication 17 July 1972)

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