Design and testing of a new radio-tag for instrumenting large whales. Final report

Technical Report · Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5812012

Follmann, E H; Miller, G O

In 1978, Project Whales was initiated to investigate the occurrence, ecology, and biology of bowhead and gray whales in areas of the Beaufort Sea under consideration for offshore oil and gas leasing. One aspect of the study was to develop radio tags to monitor the movement and behavior of whales. It was considered important to test the radio tag design in more favorable environments than arctic waters. The test called for tagging of gray whales in Mexico with the objective to determine (1) effectiveness of the attachment procedure for tagging large whales (2) length of time the radio tag will remain attached to a whale, and (3) range of reception from tagged whales.

• Research Organization: Oregon State Univ., Corvallis (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5812012
• Report Number(s): PB-86-169547/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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