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Fisheries - Enviro Dynamics Namibia

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F I S H E R I E S , M A M M A L S A N D S E A B I R D S S P E C I A L I S T S T U D Y<br />

SPECIES STATUS*<br />

Common Tern<br />

Sterna hirundo<br />

Arctic Tern<br />

S. paradisaea<br />

Sandwich Tern<br />

S. sandvicensis<br />

Swift Tern<br />

S. bergii<br />

Damara Tern<br />

S. balaenarum<br />

Caspian Tern<br />

S. caspia<br />

Black Tern<br />

Chlidonias niger<br />

Final Report<br />

<strong>Namibia</strong>n Marine Phosphate (Pty) Ltd.<br />

RELATIVE<br />

ABUNDANCE<br />

Page 95<br />

SEASONALITY<br />

NM, inshore Common Summer<br />

NM, offshore Uncommon Summer passage<br />

NM, inshore Common Summer<br />

B, inshore Common All year<br />

CONSERVATION<br />

STATUS (IUCN)<br />

B, inshore Uncommon All year Near threatened<br />

B, inshore Rare All year<br />

NM, inshore Rare Summer<br />

* B: breeding resident; AM: African migrant; SM: Southern Ocean migrant; NM: northern hemisphere migrant.<br />

a Recent taxonomic divisions not taken into account.<br />

Appendix 1a-2. Distribution and seasonal abundance of Mysticete<br />

(baleen) whales in southern <strong>Namibia</strong>n waters<br />

SPECIES SEASONALITY DISTRIBUTION CONSERVATION STATUS<br />

Blue whale<br />

(Balaenoptera<br />

musculus)<br />

Fin whale<br />

(B. physalus)<br />

Sei whale<br />

(B. borealis)<br />

Minke whale<br />

(B. acutorostrata)<br />

Bryde’s whale<br />

(B. edeni)<br />

Humpback whale<br />

(Megaptera<br />

novaeangliae)<br />

Southern right whale<br />

(Eubalaena australis)<br />

Pygmy right whale<br />

(Caperea marginata)<br />

Migratory Pelagic Endangered<br />

Migratory Pelagic – some association<br />

with the shelf edge<br />

Vulnerable<br />

Migratory Pelagic Endangered<br />

Migratory / year<br />

round<br />

Pelagic / Neritic<br />

Migratory Probable pelagic<br />

Migratory / year<br />

round<br />

(some summer<br />

residency)<br />

Pelagic / Neritic (uses coastal<br />

waters as migratory corridors)<br />

Endangered<br />

Migratory Neritic – extreme inshore Vulnerable<br />

Migratory unknown

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